DRR Knowledge Products
Socioeconomic Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Five Poverty Counties in China
COVID-19 has put societies all around the world under enormous pressures and jeopardized the core principle of the Sustainable Development Goals – leaving no one behind, both globally and in China. Vulnerable groups who were already at risk before COVID-19 are now at...
Public Banks and COVID-19: Combating the Pandemic with Public Finance
Covid-19 has dealt a devastating economic blow around the world. From individuals who can no longer afford to pay for food, to SMEs unable to cover their rent, to national governments struggling with their balance of payments and skyrocketing health expenditures, the...
IsDB Group Report on COVID-19 and Islamic Finance
The Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdown have adversely affected the global economic activities. Given the global impact of the crisis, H.E. Dr. Bandar Hajjar, Chairman of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, constituted a Working Group to study the impact...
UNDRR: Reducing Risk and Building Resilience of SMEs to Disasters
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), including micro SMEs, are the bedrock of global, national, and local markets. Two in every three people works in an SME (OECD 2019).1 When disaster strikes, SMEs are hit harder, suffer longer and are slower to recover than larger...