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Cash grants to manufacturers after Cyclone Idai : RCT evidence from Mozambique
Berkel, Hanna; Fisker, Peter Simonsen; Tarp, Finn - 2021
In March 2019, Cyclone Idai hit central Mozambique and caused widespread damage, including businesses in the enterprise sector. We use panel data and a randomized controlled trial to estimate the impact of unconditional cash grants on micro enterprises and their recovery. We find that, on...
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Vulnerability to natural shocks : assessing the short-term impact on consumption and poverty of the 2015 flood in Mozambique
Salvucci, Vincenzo; Santos, Ricardo - 2019
Mozambique is among the most disaster-prone countries in the world. A bigger than usual, and mostly unexpected, flood … results are relevant for policy planning, natural disaster management, and for ex ante vulnerability assessment in Mozambique …
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Aid and growth accelerations : vulnerability matters
Guillaumont, Patrick; Wagner, Laurent - 2012
This working paper has been prepared within the UNU-WIDER project 'Foreign Aid': Research and This paper confronts three conundrums. First, does the relationship between aid and growth fade over time when aid is successful? Second, why are aid inflows neglected in the literature on growth...
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Assessing the risk of cyclone-induced storm surge and sea level rise in Mozambique
Neumann, James E.; Emanuel, Kerry A.; Ravela, Sai; … - 2013
This article considers the impact of sea level rise and storm surge on the port cities of Maputo and Beira in Mozambique. By combining a range of sea level rise scenarios for 2050 with the potential maximum storm surge level for the current 100-year storm, we analyze permanently inundated lands...
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Cyclone impacts on manufacturing firms in Mozambique
Berkel, Hanna; Fisker, Peter Simonsen; Tarp, Finn - 2021
Chimoio which were interviewed 6 and 12 months after the natural disaster. While Beira was largely destroyed in the event …, the disaster hit some types of manufacturing firms much harder than others. For instance, businesses in the construction …
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Humanitarian economics
Carbonnier, Gilles - 2018
with the economics and political economy of war, disaster, and humanitarian action. To illustrate the field's scientific …
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Trust a few: natural disasters and the formation of trust in Africa
Mackay, Robert; Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Tarverdi, Yashar - 2023
disasters within the impressionable years may affect the formation of trust by matching data from over 1,000 disaster … occurrences with data from 88,670 individuals across 36 African nations. Exploiting the frequency of disaster exposure across the … impressionable years, we show that disaster exposure has a negative and significant association with generalized trust. Additionally …
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Climate vulnerability and government resource mobilization in developing countries
Tsopmo, Pierre Christian; Foudjo, Suzie Imelda; Elanga, … - 2022
There is substantial empirical literature on the impact of climate vulnerability on economic outcomes in developing countries. However, this literature is still weak on the impact of climate vulnerability on tax revenue mobilization. To enrich the existing literature, this paper aims to...
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The impact of democracy on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa, 1982 - 2012
Masaki, Takaaki; Van de Walle, Nicolas - 2014
Does democracy promote economic growth? There is still an ongoing debate over the economic implications of democracy, and this question has gained critical importance particularly in the African context, where a wave of democratization in the early 1990s coincided with the start of a new era of...
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Inequality and growth : a review on a great open debate in economics
Baselgia, Enea; Foellmi, Reto - 2022
What is the relationship between inequality and growth? This question has occupied and fascinated social scientists for more than a century. This article critically reviews the recent empirical and theoretical literature on the complex interplay between inequality and economic growth. Inequality...
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