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Author(s) Poundrik, Sandeep

Disaster risk financing: case studies

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World Bank, the
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
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Disaster risk management in East Asia and the Pacific, working paper series no. 23:

This note addresses the instruments supporting risk retention and risk financing at the national and regional/international levels. It reviews examples generally considered to be good practices in the sector and seeks to elucidate well-regarded risk retention instruments and financing.

It includes case studies on:
• National disaster fund, Mexico
• Post disaster risk financing mechanisms, Costa Rica
• Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility

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Themes Insurance and risk transfer Economics of DRR
Country and region Costa Rica Mexico
Number of pages
14 p.
Publication year
2011

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