Economics of DRR

Τhis theme covers economic analysis supporting risk-informed investments and better investment planning and financing strategies for disaster risk reduction. It also adresses post-event economic loss and impact assessments, cost benefit analysis and other DRR investment appraisal techniques, ex-ante economic impact assessments.

Latest Economics of DRR additions in the Knowledge Base

A farmer tends to his maize crop in Talquezal, Guatemala
A recently published feasibility study identifies potential disaster risk finance and insurance solutions that could provide basic financial protection at scale for family farmers in northern Central America.
World Bank, the
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This study shows that sovereign risk, and hence funding costs for governments, exhibits significantly asymmetric reactions to its determinants across the conditional distribution of credit spreads.
An Egyptian farmer harvests his crops in Dahreya, Dakahleya, Egypt
This inventory provides information on a range of innovative financial instruments that have been used, or potentially could be used, to finance the implementation of climate change adaptation measures, including national priorities identified in NAPS.
National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network
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To estimate the economic risks caused by future debris flows, a machine learning-based method was proposed to generate an economic risk map by multiplying a debris-flow hazard map and an economic vulnerability map.
Insurance is a critical component of America's disaster safety net. That role makes it deeply troubling that in many places around the US right now, disaster insurance is becoming scarce, unaffordable, and the quality of coverage is degrading.
Earth.org
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Public financial management (PFM) systems are rarely configured for countries to proactively respond to disasters; so, how can we engage with ministries of finance to encourage them to plan for disaster shocks?
World Bank, the
The global community must adopt a global goods perspective rather than only a country-by-country approach to pandemic financing.
Center for Global Development
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This report explains why strengthening the governance around public investment management is central to cutting inefficiencies and unblocking the climate finance needed to narrow Asia and the Pacific’s gaping infrastructure gap.

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