Financial and Fiscal Instruments for Catastrophe Risk Management: Addressing the Losses from Flood Hazards in Central Europe (World Bank Studies) - Softcover

Pollner, John

 
9780821395790: Financial and Fiscal Instruments for Catastrophe Risk Management: Addressing the Losses from Flood Hazards in Central Europe (World Bank Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0821395793 ISBN 13: 9780821395790
Publisher: World Bank Publications, 2012

Synopsis

This applied study addresses the large flood exposures of Central Europe and proposes efficient financial and risk transfer mechanisms to mitigate fiscal losses from such natural catastrophes. In 2010 the V-4 Visegrad countries (i.e., Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia) demonstrated their historical vulnerability to floods - Poland suffered $3.2 billion in flood related losses, comparable to it $3.5 billion of losses in 1997. Flood modeling analysis of the V-4 shows that a disaster event with a 5 percent probability in any given year can lead to economic losses in these countries of between 0.6 percent to 1.9 percent of GDP, as well as between 2.2 percent to 10.7 percent of government revenues.

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Publisher
World Bank Publications
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0821395793
ISBN 13 
9780821395790
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
192