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As countries continue to meet the immediate needs of the COVID-19 pandemic, the crisis is forcing policymakers to consider the unavoidable trade-offs between saving lives and preserving jobs and livelihoods. Throughout Asia-Pacific, governments are considering options for restarting their economic engines and putting people back to work, includ…
This report explores the landscape of vaccine industry activity in order to improve immunisation coverage. International agreements, including the Global Vaccine Action Plan and Sustainable Development Goals, set out clear targets to improve access to vaccines worldwide. Achieving these targets requires a coordinated framework of multiple stakehold…
By Sébastien Miroudot, Senior Economist at the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation
Some governments assert that global value chains create economic vulnerabilities in times of a pandemic. This column, taken from a recent Vox eBook, examines recent experiences and the risk-management literature. It concludes…
By Francisco Betti, Head of Shaping the Future of Advanced Manufacturing and Production, World Economic Forum, and Jun Ni Shien-Ming Wu, Collegiate Professor of Manufacturing Science; Honorary Dean, UM-SJTU Joint Institute, University of Michigan
As the number of COVID-19 cases in China falls, it is also recovering from the effects o…
The Asia Risk and Resilience Conference is an annual conference organized by RIMAS, IAEM and BCP ASIA. This year's theme is Corporate Governance, Risk and Resilience, and it will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Singapore.
The conference features a wide range of experts, academics, executies, and consultants who have extensive experience with disas…
This study estimates the minimum cost for achieving vaccine research and development preparedness targets in a portfolio of 11 epidemic infectious diseases, accounting for vaccine pipeline constraints and uncertainty in research and development preparedness outcomes.
The study finds that the cost of developing a single epidemic infectious disease…
By Neal Doherty
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In response to the outbreak of COVID-19, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council issued updated guidance on actions that financial institutions should take to mitigate business impact during a pandemic. This new guidance builds upon guidance issued in 2006 and 2007. ”Pandemic…
BANGKOK - The Regional Office for Asia and Pacific of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), in collaboration with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), announces the launch of an online training course to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) build their business resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The…
In this paper, the authors develop a Resilience Capability Framework focusing on the specific ways in which industrial capabilities contribute to countries' overall economic resilience, and the degree to which governments are central for leveraging, coordinating and deploying industrial capabilities to respond effectively and innovatively to a systemic…
Background
Up to 80% of all investment in any given country is coming from the private sector. It is therefore critical that the private sector engages to make this investment risk informed. The private sector is a critical participant in the creation of risk-resilient societies. By combining the intellectual (know-how) and capital assets of the privat…
This publication reports on the discussions and outcomes from the Second India Disaster Management Congress organized by National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), India and held on 4-6 November, 2009 in New Delhi. The report presents a total of 26 technical sessions organized around 13 thematic clusters, including sessions on:
-- Earthquake
-- M…
This paper focuses on how resilience considerations can be better integrated into industrial policy, building on the guidance offered by the Sendai Framework and the broader emergency management literature, and reflecting on lessons learnt from the COVID-19 crisis and other ones. While the resilience dimension is a common guiding principle in a number o…
This contributing paper delves into the impact of a tsunami and the COVID-19 pandemic on the coastal tourism sector in Pandeglang Regency (Banten Province) in Indonesia. The sector is a significant contributor to regional income and one of its coastal areas is designated as a Special Economic Zone in 2018. The tourism sector in Pandeglang Regency is sup…
This short note was published as independent blogs between June and October 2020 as part of technical knowledge produced by the Disaster Risk Finance Community of Practice.
The note includes the following 12 blogs and authors’ biographies:
Five lessons on disaster risk finance to inform COVID-19 crisis response
Five reasons you should be thinking…
To understand the longer term consequences of natural disasters for global value chains, this paper examines trade in the automobile and electronic sectors after the 2011 earthquake in Japan. COVID-19 has exposed the risks associated with the interconnected nature of global trade. The reliance on foreign input producers can lead to a disruption of…