A substantial share of the world's children reside in disaster-prone areas and suffer from stunted growth. Child growth …

years after the disaster, economic growth in the underlying economy remains buoyant even if official regional economic data …

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 …

their place of residence after the disaster when they lived nearer to Fukushima, (2) the effect of the disaster on intention …

The standard approach to 'nowcast' disaster impacts, which relies on risk models, does not typically account for the … nowcasting, and for post-disaster damage assessment. We focus on Fiji and on its agriculture sector, and on tropical cyclones … be used for both nowcasting and post-disaster damage assessments. …

losses, and ii) the model is able to capture both positive and negative economic effects of a disaster in different areas of …

investigate the mitigating impact of an agricultural cashtransfer program (PROCAMPO) and a disaster fund (Fonden) on the migration …