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Managing Economic Exposures of Natural Disasters: Exploring Alternative Financial Risk Management Opportunities and Instruments
Andersen, Torben - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001
The report makes a general assessment of the need for catastrophe risk transfer in Latin America and the Caribbean. It analyzes different ways in which risk transfer can take place in the form of conventional reinsurance contracts as well as newer derivative instruments and risk-linked securities.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653038
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Health Financing Options for Samoa : Challenges and Opportunities
Anderson, Ian - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
Samoa currently faces two important public policy challenges in the health sector. One is to stem, and then reverse, the rapid rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The second challenge is to put the country on a health-financing path that is effective, efficient, and financially affordable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010932945
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Natural Disasters Financial Risk Management : Technical and Policy Underpinnings for the Use of Disaster-Linked Financial Instruments in Latin America and the Caribbean
Durante, Juan José; Focke, Kurt S.; Collich, Guillermo J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
The Latin American and Caribbean region is highly exposed to natural disasters. The social and economic impact of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009199131
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Haiti; 2010 Article IV Consultation and Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility: Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Ex...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
The January 2010 earthquake represented a major setback for Haiti, after several years of improved economic performance. Executive Directors commended the authorities for quickly restoring basic government functions and maintaining sound policies during the crisis. Directors welcomed the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242533
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Institutional and methodological recommendations for the measurement of indicators for the disaster-related Sustainable Development Goals and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk...
Vereinte Nationen / Economic Commission for Latin … - 2022
This document outlines institutional and methodological recommendations proposes six methodological steps for measuring indicators for the disaster-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and defines a number of global, regional and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013479387
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Estimated Business Interruptions Losses of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Vargas, Vanessa - 2011
A generalized framework of Economic Analysis of natural and man-made disasters is applied to the estimation of business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429649
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Public sector corruption and the probability of technological disasters
Yamamura, Eiji - 2013
A growing number of studies have explored the influence of institution on the outcomes of disasters and accidents from … the viewpoint of political economy. This paper focuses on the probability of the occurrence of disasters rather than … probability of technological disasters. It was found that public sector corruption raises the probability of technological …
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Middle class flight from post-Katrina New Orleans : a theoretical analysis of inequality and schooling
Barbieri, Stefano; Edwards, John H. Y. - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456676
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Building Philippine MSMEs resilience to ratural disasters
Magno-Ballesteros, Marife; Domingo, Sonny - 2015 - (revised)
Disasters are bad for business specifically for MSMEs. These catastrophic events can compromise capital, supply chains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505107
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Effects of the great east Japan earthquake on subjective well-being
Ishino, Takuya; Kamesaka, Akiko; Murai, Toshiya; … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487234