MANAGING THE FINANCIAL COST OF DISASTERS

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Lessons for IDA from the UK Government’s approach to explicit contingent liabilities. This paper draws on learning from the UK’s Contingent Liability Approval Framework to consider how IDA could better support the systematic identification and management of contingent disaster liabilities for its client countries.

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