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The Determinants of Subnational Public Spending Allocation for Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangladesh

Karim, Azreen - 2020

disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation in Bangladesh, a country with a very high exposure to weather risk. We use a … comprehensive dataset for the 483 sub-districts (Upazilas) in Bangladesh, tracking disaster risk reduction and adaptation funding … does proximity to the centres of Dhaka and Chittagong. Public spending for adaptive disaster risk reduction, as …

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Natural Disasters and Regional Development - the Case of Earthquakes

Fabian, Marius - 2019

We analyze the impact of earthquakes on nighttime lights at a sub-national level, i.e. on grids of different size. We argue that existing studies on the impact of natural disasters on economic development have several important limitations, both at the level of the outcome variable – usually...

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Natural Disasters, Moral Hazard, and Special Interests in Congress

Kaplan, Carol - 2019

accountability and politicians’ support for special interests. We show that, in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, the evening …

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Financial Market Responses to a Natural Disaster : Evidence from Local Credit Networks and the Indian Ocean Tsunami

Czura, Kristina - 2019

disaster to different extents, we estimate the causal effect of this devastating economic shock on financial flows between …

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Reversible Environmental Catastrophes with Disconnected Generations

Heijdra, Ben J. - 2019

We study environmental policy in an economy-ecology model featuring multiple deterministic stable steady-state ecological equilibria. The economy-ecology does not settle in either of the deterministic steady states as the environmental system is hit by random shocks. Individual live for two...

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Social Inequalities in Climate Change-Attributed Impacts of Hurrican Harvey

Smiley, Kevin T.; Noy, Ilan; Wehner, Michael; Frame, Dave; … - 2021

Climate change is already increasing the severity of extreme weather events such as with rainfall during hurricanes. But no research to date investigates if, and to what extent, there are social inequalities in current climate change-attributed flood impacts. Here, we use climate change...

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Fifty Years of Peril : A Comprehensive Comparison of the Impact of Terrorism and Disasters Linked to Natural Hazards (1970-2019)

Wilson, Timothy; Noy, Ilan - 2022

We compare the realised impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards. Using fifty years of data from two databases covering 99 percent of the global population, we find that natural hazard disasters were more then 20 times more impactful than terrorism. The former had a larger...

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Fifty Years of U.S. Natural Disaster Insurance Policy

Marcoux, Kendra; H. Wagner, Katherine R. - 2023

of natural disaster insurance in adapting to climate change. This chapter reviews current challenges in both public and … private natural disaster insurance markets in the United States and how the nature of these challenges has changed over the … complicate both the supply of and demand for natural disaster insurance, with spillovers to related markets such as real estate …

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Government Spending and Tax Revenue Decentralization and Public Sector Efficiency : Do Natural Disasters Matter?

Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - 2023

We assess notably how do extreme events affect the public sector efficiency of decentralized governance. Hence, we empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government spending efficiency scores via data envelopment...

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The Impact of a Large-Scale Natural Disaster on Local Economic Activity : Evidence from the 2003 Bam Earthquake in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023

This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in … disaster relief during the reformist government of President Khatami, the political trust and mobilization of civil society in …, economic activity in Bam County returns to its pre-disaster development path after seven years …

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