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The changing effect of legal origin on death tolls in natural disasters from 1960 to 2008.
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
. Using non-European country data, this paper investigates the effect of legal origin on natural disaster death tolls from … 1960 to 2008, and on the two periods 1960–1989 and 1990–2008. The key findings are that natural disaster death tolls are … role of legal origin, in reducing the level of damage in a disaster, changes according to technological progress. …
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Ethnic heterogeneity and the probability of technological disasters
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper uses cross-country data from 1965 to 2008 to examine how ethnic heterogeneity affects the probability of technological disasters. Estimation results showed that ethnic heterogeneity increased the probability of technological disasters.
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How is disaster aid allocated within poor villages?
Takasaki, Yoshito - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2012
about cyclone damage, traditional kin status, and aid allocations over post-disaster phases, at both household and kin …How disaster aid is allocated within poor villages is little understood. This paper examines risk-sharing institutions …
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Conhecimentos tradicionais e aprendizagem adaptativa: elementos para respostas sustentáveis às mudanças ambientais
Kirsch, Heitor Marcos; Filippi, Eduardo Ernesto; … - In: Revista Iberoamericana de Economía Ecológica 21 (2013) December, pp. 29-41
O objetivo deste trabalho é demonstrar que processos simbólicos atrelados aos conhecimentos tradicionais locais conferem sentido e identidade e podem representar uma alternativa eficaz para produzir respostas que apresentem características de serem sustentáveis em um horizonte temporal mais...
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Immigration and Inequality
Card, David - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 1-21
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Achieving Bangladesh's tourism potential: Linkages to export diversification, employment generation and the "green economy"
Honeck, Dale; Akhtar, Md. Shoaib - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2014
Bangladesh's international image is not as a popular tourism destination, and many people might be surprised to learn it has three World Heritage sites, including the Sundarbans tiger reserves. Moreover, it is part of important travel circuits for cultural and religious tourism, and has...
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LDC export diversification, employment generation and the green economy: What roles for tourism linkages?
Honeck, Dale - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2012
Pro-poor tourism is arguably one of the best green options for addressing LDC poverty, employment and economic diversification initiatives. Although often neglected as a serious policy option - and consequently most of its potential still remains untapped - tourism is the leading export for at...
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Sharing as Risk Pooling in a Social Dilemma Experiment
Cherry, Todd; Howe, E. Lance; Murphy, James J. - Department of Economics, College of Business and Public … - 2012
In rural economies with missing or incomplete markets, idiosyncratic risk is frequently pooled through informal networks. Idiosyncratic shocks, however, are not limited to private goods but can also restrict an individual from partaking in or benefitting from a collective activity. In these...
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Re-Engaging with Rationality in Economic Geography : Behavioural Approaches and the Importance of Context in Decision-Making
Strauss, Kendra - 2010
Behavioural approaches have become mainstream in economics, supported by the research of cognitive scientists and psychologists, yet their findings have attracted little attention from geographers. This article argues for a renewed behavioural economic geography that builds on research in...
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Consumption Smoothing and Insurance Against the Income Risks: A Case of India
KUMAR, PARMOD; SINGH, SUDHIR KUMAR - In: Indian Economic Review 47 (2012) 2, pp. 265-283
This paper examines the incidence of consumption smoothing or risk sharing among the above and below poverty households in India. The results suggest partial risk sharing activities between households either within the same village or within their same ethnic groups. The results of insurance...
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