. Discussions with governments on the optimal use of contingent credit instruments as part of a sovereign catastrophe risk financing … their short-term liquidity constraints. In many situations, contingent credit is most effectively used to facilitate risk … retention for middle layers, with reserves used for bottom layers and risk transfer (for example, reinsurance) for top layers …

recent innovations on disaster risk financing and insurance developed by the private markets as well as the international … applications in sovereign disaster risk financing for developing countries. Section three examines how innovations coming out of … mature property catastrophe risk insurance (PCRI) markets could serve in low and middle-income countries. Section four …

This paper proposes a framework for ex ante evaluation of sovereign disaster risk finance instruments available to … disaster losses, taking into account the risk of disasters, economic conditions, and political constraints. The paper discusses … underlying disaster risk faced and prevailing economic and financial conditions …

help resolve these commitment problems. Using a simple model of disaster risk finance is used to identify three distinct …Those at risk from natural disasters are typically under-protected, possibly because they expect benefactors such as … such commitments are difficult. This article analyses how transferring risk to third-parties such as private insurers may …

. Discussions with governments on the optimal use of contingent credit instruments as part of a sovereign catastrophe risk financing … their short-term liquidity constraints. In many situations, contingent credit is most effectively used to facilitate risk … retention for middle layers, with reserves used for bottom layers and risk transfer (for example, reinsurance) for top layers …

This paper is an overview of how insurance instruments could be used in Indonesia to improve disaster risk finance (the … arrangements for managing the financial consequences of disaster). We review the policy and research literature to describe the … community mapping movement to fill in some of the major gaps in data that hinder the assessment of disaster risks. We argue that …

. Discussions with governments on the optimal use of contingent credit instruments as part of a sovereign catastrophe risk financing … their short-term liquidity constraints. In many situations, contingent credit is most effectively used to facilitate risk … retention for middle layers, with reserves used for bottom layers and risk transfer (for example, reinsurance) for top layers …