discusses ex ante and ex post issues affecting disaster risk management. It also assesses how both types of measures can be … jointly used to reduce the economic impact of disasters on sovereign governments and the IDB. Opportunities and instruments …

Natural disaster risk is emerging as an increasingly important constraint on economic development and poverty reduction …. This paper first sets out the key stylized facts in the area-that the costs of disaster have been increasing, seem set to … dealing with disaster risk. Key sources of market failure include the difficulty of risk spreading and, perhaps even more …

assistance related to natural disasters. The authorities have requested the provision of subsidies to reduce the rate of charge …

purchase in an amount of SDR 103.35 million under the IMF’s policy for emergency assistance related to natural disasters. In …

Natural disasters are an important source of vulnerability in the Caribbean region. Despite being one of the more … disaster-prone areas of the world, it has one of the lowest levels of insurance coverage. This paper examines the vulnerability …

Each year natural disasters affect about 200 million people and cause about $50 billion in damage. This paper compares … the incidence of natural disasters across countries along several dimensions and finds that the relative costs tend to be … vulnerable, with the countries of the Eastern Caribbean standing out as among the most disaster-prone in the world. Natural …

for a small open economy with limited access to foreign capital and subject to natural disasters or terms of trade shocks …