Closing the Gap: Pooling Risk in Central America and the Caribbean

Author(s)

Regidor, J.P. & Linkin, M.

Publication language

English

Pages

2pp

Date published

01 May 2018

Publisher

Swiss Reinsurance

Type

Research, reports and studies

Keywords

Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Disasters, Funding and donors

Link

http://www.swissre.com/library/factsheets-publication/Closing_the_gap_Pooling_ri…

Since 1980, nine countries in Central America and the Caribbean have had at least half of their annual gross domestic product (GDP) wiped out by a natural catastrophe. The 2010 earthquake in Haiti had an estimated impact of 120% of GDP.

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