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We analyse both theoretically and empirically, the factors that influence the amount of humanitarian aid which … disaster relief which helps the survival of victims and long term humanitarian aid given towards reconstruction and … results. The empirical analysis, making use of some useful data sources, show that both short and long term humanitarian aid …
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We analyse both theoretically and empirically, the factors that influence the amount of humanitarian aid which … disaster relief which helps the survival of victims and long term humanitarian aid given towards reconstruction and … results. The empirical analysis, making use of some useful data sources, show that both short and long term humanitarian aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904153
Natural disaster risk is emerging as an increasingly important constraint on economic development and poverty reduction. This paper first sets out the key stylized facts in the area-that the costs of disaster have been increasing, seem set to continue to increase, and bear especially heavily on...
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This paper reviews the Maldives’s Use of IMF Resources and Request for Emergency Assistance. The authorities have requested a purchase of an amount equivalent to SDR 4.1 million (50 percent of quota) under the IMF’s policy on emergency assistance related to natural disasters. The...
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We analyse both theoretically and empirically, the factors that influence the amount of humanitarian aid which … disaster relief which helps the survival of victims and long term humanitarian aid given towards reconstruction and … results. The empirical analysis, making use of some useful data sources, show that both short and long term humanitarian aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075693
 The Iowa floods of 2008 were a very destructive natural disaster with total property losses far exceeding the in-state damages occurring during the 1993 floods. Current estimates place total damages to private property and public infrastructure at over $3 billion, with the highest volume of...
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of per capita aid flows. Some country-specific variationson the basic mirab model in the recent literature are reviewed …
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The literature on the aid?growth relationship has recently been reinvigorated through the application of growth … equations that seek to explain growth as a function of institutions, policies and aid. This approach has generally led to the … conclusion that aid has contributed to growth, albeit with decreasing returns. Some studies have found that there is only a …
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I discuss how aid can support growth in small, isolated economies. Small markets frustrate scale economies and …
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This paper analyses the role of foreign aid to assist development in two oil-rich countries: Indonesia and Nigeria …. This paper seeks to understand the way foreign aid provided assistance to transform Indonesia from a .fragile. state in the …
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