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Fifty years of peril : a comprehensive comparison of the impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards (1970-2019)
Wilson, Timothy; Noy, Ilan - 2022
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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Risk management and coping strategies : climate change and agriculture in the Philippines
Ravago, Majah-Leah V.; Roumasset, James Alan; Jandoc, … - 2015
We provide an initial framework regarding priorities for government programs to reduce the natural-disaster … not necessarily imply that social insurance programs should be expanded. Inasmuch as disaster risk management policies at …
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Household coping and recovery from nature's wrath : rising from the ruins of Yolanda
Ravago, Majah-Leah V.; Mapa, Dennis S. - 2015
already recovered. Using the PCED Social Protection Survey conducted 6 months after the disaster, we find that 36% of the …
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Asymmetry in Boom-Bust Shocks : Australian Performance with Oligopoly
Tyers, Rod - 2014
Australia's comparatively small and open economy is subject to boom-bust shocks that centre on its exporting mining and …
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What do exogenous shocks tell us about growth theories?
Noy, Ilan; Nualsri, Aekkanush - 2007
The sources of economic growth and development have been puzzling economists from the modern dawn of the profession. While the Solow-Swan neo-classical model dominated research on growth in the 1960s and 1970s, the 1980s saw the emergence of growth theories that disputed, largely on theoretical...
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Impact of income shock on children’s schooling and labor in a West African country
Fatoke-Dato, Mafaïzath A. - 2015
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. …
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Environmental disasters and migration
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015
This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While some authors find that environmental disasters increase migration, others show that they have only...
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The tempest : natural disasters, early shocks and children's short- and long-run development
Deuchert, Eva; Felfe, Christina - 2013 - This draft: February, 2013
indicates that the main underlying channel is a shock on families' wealth. -- child development ; natural disaster ; wealth … and education of a specific shock: housing damages caused by a super typhoon. Our results reveal negative effects on … shock …
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Borrowers under water! : rare disasters, regional banks, and recovery lending
Koetter, Michael; Noth, Felix; Rehbein, Oliver - 2016
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. …
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The impact of extreme weather events on education
Groppo, Valeria; Kraehnert, Kati - 2015
comprehensive retrospective information on households’ historic experience with weather shocks. Exposure to the weather shock … significantly reduces the likelihood of being enrolled in mandatory school two to three years after the shock. Similarly, it … significantly reduces the probability of completing basic education ten to eleven years after the shock. Both effects are driven by …
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