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The effects of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education
Dodlova, Marina; Escobar Carias, Michelle; Grimm, Michael - 2023
We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … intensity data with four waves of the Haiti Demographic Health Survey, two administered before and two after the earthquake. We … find lasting negative impacts of the earthquake on children's stunting and wasting as well as on school enrolment and …
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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
to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the impact of the 2003 Bam earthquake in the Iranian Kerman Province … statistically significant boost in economic activity in the years following the earthquake. This increase in local economic activity … this period, the cultural importance of Bam, the severity of the earthquake, and the media attention. Additionally …
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Trends and patterns of growth, development, achievements of China and India : a comparative analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Bhattacharyay, Madhurima - 2016
. This has resulted in a remarkable poverty reduction in the last two to three decades in the two economies. PRC and India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444894
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Determinants of human development : capturing the role of institutions
Binder, Michael; Georgiadis, Georgios - 2011
In this paper, we study development in a panel of 87 countries from 1970 to 2005. We focus on characterizing institutionally driven heterogeneities in the development effects of macroeconomic policies and on comparing the development process as measured by GDP to that measured by the Human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011991
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
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Macroeconomic policy and development in India : some analytical issues
Sen, Partha - 2022
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Household vulnerability on the frontline of climate change : the pacific atoll nation of Tuvalu
Taupo, Tauisi; Cuffe, Harold; Noy, Ilan - 2016
, and in particular to sea-level rise and its associated risks. We construct poverty and hardship profiles for households on …
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Social inequalities in climate change-attributed impacts of hurricane 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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Hurricanes, economic growth and transmission channels : empirical evidence for developed and underdeveloped countries
Berlemann, Michael; Wenzel, Daniela - 2016
While the short-term growth consequences of natural disasters are comparatively well studied, there is little knowledge how disasters affect long-run growth. Based on truly exogenous storm indicators, derived from a meteorological database, we show that the growth effects of tropical storms go...
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Do natural disasters enhance societal trust?
Toya, Hideki; Skidmore, Mark - 2012
In this paper we investigate the long-run relationship between disasters and societal trust. A growing body research suggests that factors such as income inequality, ethnic fractionalization, and religious heritage are important determinants of social capital in general, and trust in particular....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580773