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Understanding risk to create resilient platforms for sustainable growth and human dignity

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Insurance Development Forum

This publication outlines a number of potential solutions and enablers that could form part of the global response to climate and natural hazard risks. It advocates for improved risk modelling and mapping and assesses the value of risk financing. It explores the link between improved institutional capability, risk management and disaster recovery, highlighting the need for an enabling regulatory environment with appropriate regulations depending on context, capacity and development. Finally, it looks at the growing role that insurance does and can play in reducing risk and mitigating disruption.

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Last checked: 18 December 2019

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Themes Recovery Insurance and risk transfer Financing DRR
Number of pages
32 p.
Publication year
2017

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