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proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as its …
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proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as the …, the paper applies the socioeconomic resilience framework to a cost-benefit analysis of prospective adaptive social …
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The interest rate pass-through describes how changes in a reference rate (the monetary policy, money market, or T-bill rate) transmit to bank lending rates. This paper reviews the empirical literature on the interest rate pass-through and systematizes it by means of meta-analysis and...
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Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) nightlights are used to model damage caused by earthquakes, floods, and typhoons in five Southeast Asian countries (Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam). The data are used to examine the extent to which for each type of...
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Dar es Salaam is frequently affected by severe flooding causing destruction and impeding daily life of its 4.5 million inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct (damage to or loss of assets or property) and...
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Policy makers are increasingly interested in strategies to promote resilience and mitigate the effects of future … protection against shocks, but their role in fostering resilience has been less studied. This paper assesses whether the … drought shocks. It analyzes mechanisms through which cash transfers contribute to resilience, such as savings facilitation …
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