policies to reduce household vulnerability, including the role of discounting. In particular, we highlight the limited coping …We provide an initial framework regarding priorities for government programs to reduce the natural-disaster … conceptual framework for understanding resilience at the household level and evidence from the PCED Social Protection Survey …

disaster prone countries with weak social safety nets …

disaster prone countries with weak social safety nets. …

We test if and how banks adjust their lending in response to disaster risk in the form of a natural catastrophe … disaster shocks faced especially by small and medium firms. …

Climate-related natural disaster shocks are expected to rise as the earth is getting warmer, which will adversely … of development gains and exacerbate inequality. To cope with increasing disaster risks, both short-term adaptation … strategies like relocation, government transfers, and other social safety nets, as well as long-term strategies like disaster …

that reside in counties unaffected by the natural disaster that we specify as macro shock increase lending to firms inside …-seeking. However, within the group of shock-exposed banks, those without access to geographically more diversified interbank markets …

significant decrease in income for farm households following the shock. The income shock affected enrollment of girls the most … this income shock. These results imply that income shocks could be a threat to the Universal Primary Education. …