The publication provides an overview of the disaster risk assessment and financing
practices of a broad range of economies relative to guidance elaborated in G20/OECD
Framework for Disaster Risk Assessment and Risk Financing. The publications is based
on survey responses provided by 29 economies, as well as research undertaken by the
OECD and other international organisations, and provides a global overview of the
approaches that economies facing various levels of disaster risk and economic development
have taken to managing the financial impacts of natural and man-made catastrophes.