Fiscal Resilience to Natural Disasters : Lessons from Country Experiences / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and The World Bank.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Contributor:

World Bank.

SourceOECD (Online service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology.

Governance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages)

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Natural disasters continue to cause widespread damage and losses, with fast growing economies particularly exposed. Governments often shoulder a significant share of the costs of disaster recovery and reconstruction. This is true in OECD countries and even more so in developing economies, where private insurance markets are not as well developed. The fiscal impact of disasters on a government's budget can be sizeable. Expenditures for the government arise from both explicit and implicit commitments to compensate for disaster losses. This report presents the results of a study that compares country practices in the management of the financial implications of disasters on government finances for a set of OECD member and partner countries particularly exposed to natural hazards.

Contents:

Costa Rica

Peru

France

Australia

Mitigating disaster-related contingent liabilities and financing residual risks: Policy lessons

Canada

New Zealand

Acronyms and abbreviations

Boosting financial resilience against disasters: Towards better management of disaster-related contingent liabilities

Colombia

Understanding the economic and fiscal impacts of disasters

Mexico

Executive Summary

Foreword

Japan

Introduction.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed May 1, 2017).

ISBN:

9789264969445

9789264412309

9789264394407

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.