Recurrent cyclonic storms in the Bay of Bengal inflict massive losses on the coastal regions of Bangladesh and India … risks. This paper constructs a georeferenced panel database that can be used to obtain such information for Bangladesh, West …

Bangladesh, much of which is perilously close to sea level and vulnerable to flooding, and which has long been the recipient of … and environmental history to highlight flawed assumptions of international development projects in Bangladesh, which often … colonial era, Bangladesh has endured intrusions, and how its current environmental crisis goes beyond global warming. This case …

This paper investigates the causal consequences of Tropical Storm Agatha (2010) - the strongest tropical storm ever to …, issues of measurement error, and different samples. The negative effects of the storm partly explain the increase in poverty …

how disasters affect long-run growth. Based on truly exogenous storm indicators, derived from a meteorological database … protect against storm consequences. We show that the negative growth effects in underdeveloped countries are amplified by an …

economic impacts, a potential spillover benefit of greater storm exposure may be a more tightly knit society. -- natural …