modeling, this paper constructs novel damage indices at the district level for Indonesia, for different disaster events such as … floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and the 2004 Christmas Tsunami. Ex ante, prior to the incidence of a disaster … the subnational governments. Ex post, or after the incidence of a natural disaster, damage indices are useful for quickly …

lives per year, avoid between 460 million and 2.7 billion Euros of disaster asset losses per year, and produce between 3 …

microeconomic study of the recovery of the private firms in a developing country following a major natural disaster. Disaster … recovery is found to be slower than commonly assumed, with disaster-affected enterprises lagging behind unaffected comparable … firms more than three years after the disaster. Using data from random cash grants provided by the project, the paper shows …

After the tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia, the recovery of fishing was limited while non-fishing sectors temporarily …

This paper combines district-level government spending data from Indonesia and natural disaster damage indices to … investment in durable assets both in the year of the disaster as well as the following year. Overall, these results highlight the … potentially useful role of a national disaster risk financing insurance program toward maintaining a relatively stable level of …

organizations and on-the-ground presence of foreigners following the 2005 earthquake in Northern Pakistan on local attitudes. They … show that four years after the earthquake, humanitarian assistance by foreigners and foreign organizations has left a …

The welfare impact of a natural disaster depends on its effect on consumption, not only on the direct asset losses and … human losses that are usually estimated and reported after disasters. This paper proposes a framework to assess disaster … after a disaster destroys part of the capital stock are better estimated by using the average?not the marginal …