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 …

disaster-prone areas of the world, it has one of the lowest levels of insurance coverage. This paper examines the vulnerability …

vulnerable, with the countries of the Eastern Caribbean standing out as among the most disaster-prone in the world. Natural …

Japan's most powerful known earthquake struck at 2:46p.m. on Friday, March 11, 2011. We study the unusual trading … behaviors of individual and foreign investors in Japan during the aftermath of this natural disaster. Individual investors …, purchases were significantly less than sales in the week after the earthquake. Foreign investors typically show positive …

This paper investigates if better access to secondary education increases enrolment in primary schools among children …