Question

1) Multilateral aid and bilateral aid are two examples of how countries can financially assist one another during times of crisis. Using Hurricane Harvey as an example, provide three examples of multilateral aid and bi-lateral aid that was provided to the United States. Provide your sources.

2) Provide a real-world example of how governments have used financial and tax incentives to reduce risk

3) Disasters differ in the amount of time available for pre-impact mobilization. For example, a dirty bomb explosion has little to no lead time, while a winter storm may have several days advanced warning.

4)

For each of the following risks, indicate whether you think it would be a DREAD RISK or an UNKNOWN RISK. Justify your answer.

Mass shooting at a concert

Male contraceptive pills

Large hadron collider at CERN

Asteroid impact

Answer 1

Solution 1

United states has provided Multilateral aid to pacts like GFE, GFATM, GAVI.

Also bilateral pacts like Afghanistan reconstruction trust fund, Asian Investment infrastructure bank with China, COmSCA act with India.

Solution 2

Government have adopted various methods to reduce risks like counterfeitingaand fraudulent activities like in India where GST tax was introduced where all businesses compulsorily havr to file returns and all products are harmonised with single tax regime for simplicity and eliminations of leakages.

Solution 3

Mass shooting concert is unknown risk.

Male contraceptive pills is dread risk

Large hadron collider is unknown risk

Asteroid impact is dread risk.