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What methods may be used in impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance?

Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - 2015

the extent to which scientific impact evaluation methods can provide evidence to improve the effectiveness and efficiency … drawing on real-life examples from the small but growing academic literature, we demonstrate how impact evaluation methods can … limited resources is a key challenge for humanitarian assistance and impact evaluation is one way of achieving this. …

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Disaster and political trust : a natural experiment from the 2017 Mexico City earthquake

Frost, Margaret; Kim, Sangeun; Scartascini, Carlos G.; … - 2024

Political trust is foundational to democratic legitimacy, representative governance, and the provision of effective public policy. Various shocks can influence this trust, steering countries onto positive or negative trajectories. This study examines whether natural disasters can impact general...

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Decentralized Provision of Disaster Aid : Aid Fragmentation and the Poverty Implications

Nose, Manabu - 2020

Despite large-scale humanitarian aid, the poverty headcount ratio continued to rise after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Indonesia. This paper evaluates how a decentralized provision of aid affected poverty and inequality dynamics over seven years after the tsunami. Donors distributed fishing...

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The effects of foreign aid on refugee flows

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Langlotz, Sarah - 2018

This article analyzes whether foreign aid affects the net flows of refugees from recipient countries. Combining refugee data on 141 origin countries over the 1976-2013 period with bilateral Official Development Assistance data, we estimate the causal effects of a country’s aid receipts on both...

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Distortions in aid allocation of United Nations flash appeals : evidence from the 2015 Nepal earthquake

Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Kunze, Sven; Strobl, Eric - 2019 - This version: February 2019

We examine the role of local need and various distortions in the design and implementation of United Nations flash appeal triggered in response to the destructive 2015 Nepal earthquake. Specifically, we investigate the extent to which the allocation of this humanitarian assistance follows...

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Foreign Aid in the Aftermath of Large Natural Disasters

Noy, Ilan - 2013

This paper examines Official Development Assistance (ODA) in the aftermath of large natural disasters between 1970 and 2008. Using an event-study approach, the paper finds that while the median increase in ODA is 18 percent compared to pre-disaster flows, the typical surge is small in relation...

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Evaluation and Aid Effectiveness No. 1 - Guidance for Evaluating Humanitarian Assistance in Complex Emergencies

2001

Evaluation is a key tool in improving the quality and effectiveness of development co-operation. The Development … Assistance Committee (DAC) Working Party in Aid Evaluation is the only international forum where bilateral and multilateral … evaluation experts meet regularly. Its Members meet to improve evaluation practice and to learn lessons from development co …

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Humanitarian economics

Carbonnier, Gilles - 2018

This paper introduces the origins and scope of humanitarian economics, a vibrant field of study and practice that deals with the economics and political economy of war, disaster, and humanitarian action. To illustrate the field's scientific and policy relevance, the paper draws on various...

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The economic impacts of direct natural disaster exposure

Johar, Meliyanni; Johnston, David; Shields, Michael; … - 2020

This paper studies how having your home damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster impacts on economic and financial outcomes. Our context is Australia, where disasters are frequent. Estimates of regression models with individual, area and time fixed-effects, applied to 10 waves of data...

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Quality infrastructure and natural disaster resiliency

Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad; Yoshino, Naoyuki; Mortha, Aline - 2019

A review of the academic literature on the topic has proved that most studies have been focused on how to finance the risk and indemnify the damages caused by an earthquake, rather than on mitigation measures. This study assessed the impact of quality infrastructure, development indicators and...

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