When a disaster strikes, it not only affects households' physical assets, but also their income levels and ability to … contribute to the local economy. Critically, these socio-economic disparities shape not only the severity of shocks on household … external assistance to accelerate reconstruction efforts. This report explores the links between disaster impacts and poverty …

-the Social Cash Transfer Program (SCTP)—to scale up response to additional beneficiaries when shocks occur. Making the SCTP shock …-responsive is a key strategic pillar of the government’s Disaster Risk Financing Strategy. The SCTP scalable mechanism was first …,000 poor and vulnerable households that would be eligible to receive a cash transfer in the event of a shock, and in fact a …

"Benefit-cost analyses of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects are an important tool for evaluating the efficiency of …

"The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although … enrollment and natural disaster risk. This result is exclusively driven by geological disasters. Natural disaster risk exposure …