The enabling environment for disaster risk financing in Pakistan : country diagnostics assessment / Asian Development Bank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asian Development Bank, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disaster management--Pakistan.

Disaster management.

Risk assessment--Pakistan.

Risk assessment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (75 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Metro Manila, Philippines : Asian Development Bank, 2019.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This publication seeks to strengthen financial preparedness for disasters in Pakistan. It focuses on insurance and other risk transfer instruments and explores the current application of disaster risk financing solutions by the government, businesses, and individual households; related demand and supply constraints; and opportunities for improvement. This is one of a series of country diagnostics assessments that used a common methodology to determine the state of the enabling environment for disaster risk financing.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Tables, Figures, and Boxes

Acknowledgments

Currency Equivalent

Abbreviations

Executive Summary

1. Introduction

1.1 Background

1.2 Risk Layering Approach

1.3 Country Diagnostics Methodology

2. Public-Sector Disaster Risk Financing Landscape

2.1 Landscape Overview

2.2 Diagnostic and Recommended Actions

3. Diagnostic on the Current Availability and Usage of Insurance, Reinsurance, and Capital Markets for Disaster Risk Financing

3.1 Government Policy Gaps

3.2 Credibility of Private Sector Offering Risk Transfer Solutions

3.3 Product Availability and Affordability

3.4 Social Protection

4. Rating Summary and Recommended Main Actions

4.1 Gaps in, and Recommendations for, Government Policy

4.2 Gaps in, and Recommendations for, Credibility in the Insurance Sector and the Capital Markets

4.3 Gaps in, and Recommendations for, Products

4.4 Gaps in, and Recommendations for, Social Protection

4.5 Gaps in, and Recommendations for, Economic and Other Preconditions

4.6 Gaps in, and Recommendations for, Unlicensed Competition

Appendixes

1 Building Code of Pakistan (Fire Safety Provisions 2016)

2 Summary on National Disaster Management Authority Guidelines Minimum Standards of Relief to Be Provided to Persons Affected by Disaster

3 BISP Data Management and Sharing Protocols

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789292614416

929261441X