International Recovery Platform

This post-disaster needs assessment presents the damage caused by the 2012 floods in Cameroon and identifies and offers preliminary recommendations and short-and long-term recovery measures.

The primary conviction of this report is driven by a concern that people’s exposure and vulnerability, experienced individually and collectively, continue to be twin challenges for the Asia-Pacific region.

Policy research working paper 6216, background paper to the 2014 world development report:

This paper investigates the link between development, economic growth, and the economic losses from natural disasters in a general analytical framework, with an