Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance for Developing Economies
A special issue of International Journal of Financial Studies (ISSN 2227-7072).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 84
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With ongoing climate change and rising natural disasters, there is an urgent need for developing economies to build financial resilience. This Special Issue of IJFS is devoted to financial resilience for developing economies facing rising natural disasters amid climate change. The scope of discussion includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Roles of the public sector and the financial/insurance sector in developing financial resilience;
- Risk-based budgeting for governments in disaster risk management and priorities in protecting vulnerable communities and key infrastructure;
- Optimal mix of ex ante versus ex-post financing of natural disasters;
- Integrated project financing and insurance for resilience infrastructures;
- How can communities tap into funds available from multilateral donors;
- Climate de-risk insurance approaches and regulatory treatments;
- Climate risk hedging instruments (e.g., index-based financial instruments for hedging long-term climate risks);
- Future climate change trajectories, transition risk, and sustainability of economic developments;
- ESG and green finance;
- Other related topics.
We invite a diverse range of research paper submissions, including comprehensive reviews of the literature, theoretical papers, and empirical studies. We encourage practitioners and academics to team up to submit papers derived from insight gained in real-life situations.
Prof. Dr. Shaun Shuxun Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- impacts of climate change
- financial resilience
- risk-based budget development
- ESG and green finance
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