concerning disaster relief. On the empirical front, studies showing causal and associative relationships between disasters and … socio-economic variables are important for estimating disaster-related losses and making appropriate policy suggestions. The … agencies. It discusses fiscal pressures caused due to disasters and existing policies related to disaster-risk mitigation and …

better define the geographic area hit by the disaster. We examine two large-scale earthquakes that occurred in two different …

Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), we show that substantially larger amounts of aid are disbursed when natural …