Investing in Resilience: Ensuring a Disaster-Resistant Future focuses on the steps required to ensure that investment in disaster resilience happens and that it occurs as an integral, systematic part of development. At-risk communities in Asia and the Pacific can apply a wide range of policy,...

El presente documento está destinado para la información y referencia en la Cuarta Reunión del Diálogo Regional-Red de Desastres Naturales, en el que participan los países de América Latina y el Caribe. El estudio trata de la definición y recomendación de las actividades e instrumentos...

This paper reviews the literature on the macroeconomic impact of natural disasters and presents the IMF’s role in assisting countries coping with natural catastrophes. Focusing on seven country cases, the paper describes the emergency financing, policy support, and technical assistance...