Samoa : Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance

In 2012 Tropical Cyclone (TC) Evan offered a distressing reminder of Samoa s exposure to natural hazards. TC Evan came only three years after the earthquake and tsunami of 2009, which affected 2.5 percent of the country s population, causing 143 fa...

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Main Author: World Bank
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC 2015
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/02/24158033/samoa-country-note
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21694