Targeted education policies have an untapped potential to promote climate-positive behaviour change across entire communities around the world. That is why a number of international frameworks have been encouraging co-ordinated action between all development finance providers at the education...

Disaster risks are increasing globally and the economic damages are becoming more severe. The associated costs have grown continuously over the last 60 years, and financing these costs remains a major challenge. Both broadening disaster risk finance options and formulating an effective policy...

As disasters grow in frequency and intensity, the opportunities to apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) to disaster risk reduction are becoming increasingly prominent. This paper discusses various AI-based approaches including crowdsourcing, Internet of Things, aerial imagery, videos from unmanned...

The Himalayan region stretches across several South Asian countries and its glaciers and annual monsoon rains provide a water source and way of life for millions of people. However, the area is prone to various disasters that disrupt these communities, the severity and frequency of which are...

Capital flows to East and Southeast Asia have been flourishing since the 19th century, together with the development of capital markets in the region. This paper examines key events of the 19th and early 20th centuries to provide historical insight into how capital flows were facilitated in Asia...

In face of the increasing frequency and intensity of disasters, the Southeast Asian region's capacity to finance prevention and response remains limited. Regional risk-sharing pools are one way to enhance financial resilience by creating more diversified portfolios, allowing participating...

Extreme weather events and large-scale conflicts lead to fluctuations in global food prices, intensifying food insecurity in developing countries. Between 2014 and 2021, the population affected by moderate or severe food insecurity increased by 10 percentage points. Following Russia's aggression...

Countries in Asia and the Pacific face a heightened risk of flooding as disasters increase worldwide due to climate change. Yet these countries often lack the infrastructure necessary to prepare for and respond to floods effectively. When flood protection measures exist, they generally rely only...

Since 2009, the OECD Development Centre has been publishing the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), a cross-country measure of gender-based discrimination in social institutions (formal and informal laws, social norms and practices). This working paper presents the conceptual and...

This paper studies the potential drivers of governments’ approval rates in 18 Latin American countries using Internet search query data from Google Trends and traditional data sources. It employs monthly panel data between January 2006 and December 2015. The analysis tests several...