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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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A storm between two waves: Recovery processes, social dynamics, and heterogeneous effects of Typhoon Haiyan on social preferences
Steimanis, Ivo; Burger, Max; Hayo, Bernd; Landmann, Andreas - 2023
The literature regarding the effects of environmental hazards on social preferences is mixed and partially contradictory. The lack of a baseline in these studies is a severe methodological constraint, as it is hard to identify heterogeneous treatment effects through experience in the recovery...
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New Markets for Local Experts in Africa?
Kohnert, Dirk - In: More Responsibilities to South Consultants in …, (pp. 63-74). 1995
In the past decades the involvement of local experts in the planning and evaluation of development programs has …'experts locaux dans la planification et l'évaluation des programmes de développement a augmenté de façon constante. L …
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Voter Reaction to Government Incompetence and Corruption Related to the 1999 Earthquakes in Turkey
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - 2015
Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great deal of incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next...
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Is Disaster Risk Reduction Spending Driven by the Occurrence of Natural Disasters? Evidence from Peru
Miller, Sebastián J.; Vela, Mauricio A. - 2014
This paper studies the allocation of total disaster risk reduction public spending among regions in Peru. The main objective of this work is to identify the main determinants of the distribution of these resources, and for this purpose an index of historical physical impacts of natural...
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Long-term Growth Effects of Natural Disasters - Empirical Evidence for Droughts
Berlemann, Michael; Wenzel, Daniela - 2015
The ongoing process of climate change goes along with a higher frequency and/or severity of droughts. While the short-term growth consequences of droughts are comparatively well examined, little research has yet been devoted to the question whether and how droughts affect medium and long-term...
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Strategic adaptation to climate change in Europe
Fankhauser, Sam; Soare, Raluca - 2012
This paper analyses the priorities and challenges for Europe as it adapts to the impacts of climate change. Whatever the ultimate level of warming we will experience, adaptation will be a permanent feature of decision making from now on. As such it is important to go about it in a strategic,...
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Climate Change Vulnerability in Agriculture Sector: Indexing and Mapping of Four Southern Indian States
Sridevi, G.; Jyotishi, Amalendu; Mahapatra, Sushanta; … - 2014
Agriculture is the sector most vulnerable to climate change due to its high dependence on climate and weather conditions. Climate change is a main challenge for agriculture, food security and rural livelihoods for millions of people in India. Among India's population of more than one billion...
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Humanitarian economics
Carbonnier, Gilles - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943861
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Incumbents' Performance and Political Polarization
Dodlova, Marina; Zudenkova, Galina - 2016
This paper studies the relationship between incumbents’ performance and political polarization, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a spatial model of political competition in which the voters use the incumbent’s performance in office to update their beliefs about his...
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