Author(s) Clarke, Daniel; de Janvry, Alain; Saoulet, Elisabeth; Skoufias, Emmanuel (editors)

Disaster risk financing and insurance: issues and results

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Department for International Development

Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)

Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International

This report provides unique results from rigorous impact evaluations of some existing Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance (DRFI) schemes presented during a workshop held at the FERDI, Université d’Auvergne, on June 4 and 5, 2015. It also looks into the politics of DRFI.

It is well known that incumbent politicians get blamed for the losses derived from natural catastrophes. Less well known is whether DRFI buys votes and helps discipline politicians in refraining them from using relief transfers for clientelistic purposes. This report covers these issues.

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Themes Insurance and risk transfer Governance Economics of DRR

ISBN/ISSN/DOI

9782955077917

Number of pages

108 p.

Publication year

2015

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