Economic losses from disasters: Pakistan national briefing - target 3
This briefing note provides information relevant to the agreement of target (iii) of the draft post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction (DRR), on economic loss, which reads: [Substantially] reduce direct disaster economic loss [by a given percentage] in relation to GDP by 2030 and its variant.
The note explains the disaster damage on human and physical capital in Pakistan, different trends within direct economic losses in Pakistan, ways of recording and measuring economic losses and the implications for monitor reporting on economic losses in the post-2015 framework on DRR.