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evidence in the case of floods and earthquakes. -- foreign aid ; Samaritan's Dilemma ; natural hazards …
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Research suggests that a donor country's decision to provide post-disaster assistance is not only driven by the … severity of a disaster and the resulting humanitarian needs in the recipient country but also by strategic considerations. We … argue that the identification of the determinants of the size of disaster assistance is a first step in the analysis of the …
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2008. Using an event-study approach, the paper finds that while the median increase in ODA is 18 percent compared to pre-disaster … only 3 percent of the total estimated economic damages caused by the disasters. The main determinants of post-disaster aid … strategic behavior on the part of donors determine the size of post-disaster aid surges …
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, earthquake, flooding, and any natural disaster. We need to assume that in any natural disaster always exist the high possibility … response and humanitarian relief aid. There are (i) the aerial monitoring post-natural disaster damage evaluation, (ii) the … natural disaster logistic and cargo delivery, (iii) the post-natural disaster aerial assessment …
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with the economics and political economy of war, disaster, and humanitarian action. To illustrate the field's scientific …
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examines whether natural disasters can impact general political trust and if disaster relief efforts can mitigate these effects …. We investigate the relationships between disaster, trust, and aid using novel survey data collected before and after a 7 ….1-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico City in September 2017. Our findings reveal that the disaster resulted in an 11% decrease in …
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January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead …
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We compare the realised impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards. Using fifty years of data from two databases covering 99 percent of the global population, we find that natural hazard disasters were more then 20 times more impactful than terrorism. The former had a larger...
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Are new mayors more responsive to disasters than their reelected counterparts? The identification strategy is based on slim vote margin in which new and reelected mayors are found to be as if randomly assigned. We find that with greater storm exposure: new mayors spend more on health sector than...
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