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Weather Index Insurance and Shock Coping : Evidence from Mexico's Cadena Program
de Janvry, Alain - 2017
Weather risk and incomplete insurance markets are significant contributors to poverty for rural households in … evidence on the impact of weather index insurance from a pioneering, large-scale insurance program in Mexico. The focus of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968741
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Assessing Socioeconomic Resilience to Floods in 90 Countries
Hallegatte, S. - 2017
This paper presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare, and a tool to help decision makers identify the most promising policy options to reduce welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969268
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Potential for Application of a Probabilistic Catastrophe Risk Modelling Framework to Poverty Outcomes : General Form Vulnerability Functions Relating Household Poverty Outcomes to...
Porter, Catherine - 2017
vulnerability to poverty using the example of drought hazard impacts on the welfare of rural households in Ethiopia. The aim is to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968739
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Early Warning, Early Action : The Use of Predictive Tools in Drought Response Through Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme
Drechsler, Mareile Beate Stephanie - 2017
This paper investigates the use of early warning tools as part of Ethiopia's Disaster Risk Management framework. Analyzing, in particular, the Livelihoods, Early Assessment and Protection tool, Livelihood Integrated Assessment and Hotspots Assessments, the paper delineates the scope and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968740
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The Poverty Impact of Climate Change in Mexico
de la Fuente, Alejandro - 2017
This paper examines the effects of climate change on poverty through the relationship between indicators of climate … product and poverty. The evidence suggests that climate change could have a negative impact on poverty by 2030. The paper … domestic product per capita is used in a second equation to estimate municipal poverty on the same years. The authors then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974371
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Evaluating Sovereign Disaster Risk Finance Strategies : A Framework
Clarke, Daniel - 2017
This paper proposes a framework for ex ante evaluation of sovereign disaster risk finance instruments available to governments for funding disaster losses. The framework can be used by governments to help choose between different financial instruments, or between different combinations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968732
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Solving Commitment Problems in Disaster Risk Finance
Clarke, Daniel - 2017
Those at risk from natural disasters are typically under-protected, possibly because they expect benefactors such as governments and donors to come to their aid. Yet when relief comes, it is often insufficient, delayed or misallocated. Benefactors may wish to commit to provide an efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968735
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A Methodology to Assess Indicative Costs of Risk Financing Strategies for Scaling Up Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme
Clarke, Daniel - 2017
This paper proposes and illustrates a methodology to assess the economic cost of the sovereign risk finance instruments available to the Government of Ethiopia and its development partners for financing the shock-responsive scalability component of the Productive Safety Net Programme. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968737
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Disaster Risk Financing and Contingent Credit : A Dynamic Analysis
Clarke, Daniel - 2017
This paper aims to assist policy makers interested in establishing or strengthening financial strategies to increase the financial response capacity of developing country governments in the aftermath of natural disasters, while protecting their long-term fiscal balance. Contingent credit is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975932
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The Impact of Hurricane Strikes on Short-Term Local Economic Activity : Evidence from Nightlight Images in the Dominican Republic
Ishizawa, Oscar - 2017
The Dominican Republic is highly exposed to adverse natural events putting the country at risk of losing hard-won economic, social, and environmental gains due to the impacts of disasters. This study uses monthly nightlight composites in conjunction with a wind field model to econometrically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941323