This study provides new empirical evidence on the effect of improving the conditions in disaster risk management (DRM …) governance in terms of human losses resulting from disaster events. To measure governance in disaster risk management, we use the … Index of Governance and Public Policy in Disaster Risk Management (IGOPP), developed by the Inter-American Development Bank …

impact. We combine a new dataset on disaster risk management governance for 26 countries from the Latin America and Caribbean … disaster risk management (DRM) governance processes, we exploit the fact that changes in DRM regulatory frameworks affect a … country's capacity for disaster risk identification and reduction to provide instrumental variable estimates of their impact …