Evaluating Sovereign Disaster Risk Finance Strategies : Case Studies and Guidance

Disaster risk finance is an important component of the disaster risk management and climate change adaptation agenda. It aims to increase the financial resilience of countries against natural hazards by strengthening public financial management and...

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Main Author: World Bank Group
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Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/972881478686747136/Evaluating-sovereign-disaster-risk-finance-strategies-case-studies-and-guidance
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spelling okr-10986-253812021-06-14T10:17:20Z Evaluating Sovereign Disaster Risk Finance Strategies : Case Studies and Guidance World Bank Group sovereign risk disaster risk risk finance finance strategy insurance Disaster risk finance is an important component of the disaster risk management and climate change adaptation agenda. It aims to increase the financial resilience of countries against natural hazards by strengthening public financial management and promoting market-based disaster risk finance solutions (such as, sovereign catastrophe risk transfer solutions for governments or domestic catastrophe risk insurance markets for public and private assets). This report complements the more theoretical framework paper with a demonstration of how the framework can be applied in practice. Five case studies illustrate a range of questions that policy makers might ask, potential instruments to be considered, and economic conditions, and a Guidance Note presents principles for such analyses. The structure of the report is as follows: the proposed framework is presented, outlining the approach of the opportunity-cost framework and its limitations. The five case studies are introduced and the contingent liability and finance strategies considered in each are outlined. Subsequently, the five case studies are presented in five chapters, each standalone with relevant annexes (including at the back of the report). Finally, a Guidance Note outlines how the framework may be applied in a practical manner to another country’s plans for the disaster risk financing of a contingent liability. Lastly, a Glossary is provided. The purpose of the entire report is to illustrate how to apply the framework to a country-specific question. All formulae and calculations applied in these case studies follow those in the technical framework paper. It does not aim to make any generalized conclusion about which finance mechanisms are cheapest or how disaster risk finance should be structured. 2016-11-18T18:15:39Z 2016-11-18T18:15:39Z 2016-10-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/972881478686747136/Evaluating-sovereign-disaster-risk-finance-strategies-case-studies-and-guidance http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25381 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper
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Evaluating Sovereign Disaster Risk Finance Strategies : Case Studies and Guidance
description Disaster risk finance is an important component of the disaster risk management and climate change adaptation agenda. It aims to increase the financial resilience of countries against natural hazards by strengthening public financial management and promoting market-based disaster risk finance solutions (such as, sovereign catastrophe risk transfer solutions for governments or domestic catastrophe risk insurance markets for public and private assets). This report complements the more theoretical framework paper with a demonstration of how the framework can be applied in practice. Five case studies illustrate a range of questions that policy makers might ask, potential instruments to be considered, and economic conditions, and a Guidance Note presents principles for such analyses. The structure of the report is as follows: the proposed framework is presented, outlining the approach of the opportunity-cost framework and its limitations. The five case studies are introduced and the contingent liability and finance strategies considered in each are outlined. Subsequently, the five case studies are presented in five chapters, each standalone with relevant annexes (including at the back of the report). Finally, a Guidance Note outlines how the framework may be applied in a practical manner to another country’s plans for the disaster risk financing of a contingent liability. Lastly, a Glossary is provided. The purpose of the entire report is to illustrate how to apply the framework to a country-specific question. All formulae and calculations applied in these case studies follow those in the technical framework paper. It does not aim to make any generalized conclusion about which finance mechanisms are cheapest or how disaster risk finance should be structured.
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title Evaluating Sovereign Disaster Risk Finance Strategies : Case Studies and Guidance
title_short Evaluating Sovereign Disaster Risk Finance Strategies : Case Studies and Guidance
title_full Evaluating Sovereign Disaster Risk Finance Strategies : Case Studies and Guidance
title_fullStr Evaluating Sovereign Disaster Risk Finance Strategies : Case Studies and Guidance
title_full_unstemmed Evaluating Sovereign Disaster Risk Finance Strategies : Case Studies and Guidance
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url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/972881478686747136/Evaluating-sovereign-disaster-risk-finance-strategies-case-studies-and-guidance
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