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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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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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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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The impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity : evidence from the 2003 Bam earthquake in Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023
This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in Iran using nighttime light intensity. We apply the synthetic control method (SCM) and nighttime light (NTL) data from 1992 to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the...
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Do natural disasters affect household saving? : evidence from the August 2002 flood in Germany
Berlemann, Michael; Haustein, Erik; Steinhardt, Max … - 2024
Recently, there is a growing interest in understanding how individuals adapt to changing climate conditions and climate-induced extreme weather events, An underexplored question is whether and how climate-related natural hazards affect household saving behavior, For this purpose, we exploit a...
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