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Can digital aid deliver during humanitarian crises?
Callen, Michael; Fajardo-Steinhäuser, Miguel; Findley, … - 2024
Can digital payments systems help reduce extreme hunger? Humanitarian needs are at their highest since 1945, aid budgets are falling behind, and hunger is concentrating in fragile states where repression and aid diversion present major obstacles. In such contexts, partnering with governments is...
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The economic and fiscal burdens of disasters in the Pacific
Noy, Ilan; Edmonds, Christopher M. - 2016
The Pacific Islands face the highest disaster risk, in per capita terms, globally. Examples of catastrophic events in … analysing the applicability of various financial instruments to facilitate both ex-ante and ex-post disaster risk management in …
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The determinants of subnational public spending allocation for disaster risk reduction in Bangladesh
Karim, Azreen; Noy, Ilan - 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 subdistricts (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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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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Government repression and the death toll from natural disasters
Costa, Samia - 2012
, however, could also play a role in disaster preparedness. In particular, I examine whether governments that are deemed to be … investment in disaster preparedness. I find an inverse U-shaped relationship between repression and casualties, with countries at … either end of the distribution experiencing lower fatalities. -- natural disasters ; government repression ; disaster …
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Macroeconomic effects of government spending shocks : new evidence using natural disaster relief in Korea
Yang, Weonho; Fidrmuc, Jan; Ghosh, Sugata - 2012
; natural disaster relief expenditure ; narrative approach ; structural vector-autoregressive model …
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Decentralization and natural disasters
Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 2013
disaster. The paper concludes by reflecting on what we know about whether policies to confront natural disasters should be …
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Long-run consequences of exposure to natural disasters
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Wray, Anthony - 2016
We utilize the individual-level World War I Draft Registration Cards matched to late-nineteenth century hurricane paths and the 1940 U.S. Census to explore whether fetal and early childhood exposure to stress caused by hurricanes affects human capital development and labor market outcomes in...
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Disastrous discretion : ambiguous decision situations foster political favoritism
Schneider, Stephan A.; Kunze, Sven - 2022
discretionary power in a partisan manner. We analyze the allocation of presidential disaster declarations in the United States …
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Natural disasters and regional development : the case of earthquakes
Fabian, Marius; Lessmann, Christian; Sofke, Tim - 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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