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The Macro Financing of Natural Hazards in Developing Countries
Mahul, Olivier - 2016
disasters at the country level. It is simple enough to shed analytical light on some of the key issues but flexible and …
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Socioeconomic Resilience in Sri Lanka : Natural Disaster Poverty and Wellbeing Impact Assessment
Walsh, Brian James - 2019
Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as the main measure of disaster severity. Using an agent-based...
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Safety Nets and Natural Disaster Mitigation : Evidence from Cyclone Phailin in Odisha
Christian, Paul - 2018
evidence for the frequently-posed hypothesis that women bear the brunt of the effects of disasters on overall household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923622
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The Reallocation of District-Level Spending and Natural Disasters : Evidence from Indonesia
Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2018
incidence of natural disasters at the local level. In the case of floods, districts reallocate spending away from the category …
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Mangroves for Coastal Protection : Evidence from Hurricanes in Central America
del Valle, Alejandro - 2019
This paper evaluates whether mangroves can mitigate the impact of hurricanes on economic activity. The paper assembles a new, regionwide panel data set that measures local economic activity using nightlights, potential hurricane damages using a detailed hurricane windstorm model, and mangrove...
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Labor Market Impacts and Responses : The Economic Consequences of a Marine Environmental Disaster
Hoang, Trung xuan - 2019
This paper examines the labor market impacts of a large-scale marine environmental crisis caused by toxic chemical contamination in Vietnam's central coast in 2016. Combining labor force surveys with satellite data on fishing-boat detection, the analysis finds negative and heterogeneous impacts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871899
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Identifying the Vulnerable to Poverty from Natural Disasters : The Case of Typhoons in the Philippines
Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2019
This paper builds on the existing literature assessing retrospectively the quantitative effects of natural disasters on … to poverty due to natural disasters, especially typhoons. A wind field model for the Philippines is employed to estimate … household consumption falls below the poverty line) in the event of future natural disasters of different intensities …
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Social Protection and Disaster Risk Management in the Philippines : The Case of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan)
Bowen, Thomas - 2017
manage disaster risk. Exposure and vulnerability to natural disasters and the effects of climate change are particularly high …
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Use of Catastrophe Risk Models in Assessing Sovereign Food Security for Risk Transfer
Sharma, Mohan - 2017
This paper discusses how catastrophe crop risk models can be used to assess food security needs at the sovereign level for the purpose of risk transfer. The rationale for a system to evaluate food security needs at the national level is discussed. The role of technology and remote sensing data...
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Using Probabilistic Models to Appraise and Decide on Sovereign Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance
Ley-Borrás, Roberto - 2017
This paper presents an overview of the structure of probabilistic catastrophe risk models, discusses their importance for appraising sovereign disaster risk financing and insurance instruments and strategy, and puts forward a model and a process for improving decision making on the linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971465