political-economic conditions within the context of vulnerability to contend that disasters are consequences of unresolved …Literature on natural hazards typically perceives disasters to be acts of God (or nature) while restricting the … that disasters are socially constructed and, second, it situates the interactions of large-scale natural forces with local …

environmental factors determine the nature of the hazard event and site-specific physical vulnerability, while socio-economic and … process seems to be the way forward for bridging the disaster-development gap. The study concludes that a paradigm shift needs …

Natural disaster risk is emerging as an increasingly important constraint on economic development and poverty reduction …

The study uses commune fixed-effect regressions to estimate the effect of natural disasters on welfare and poverty of … resilience of households to natural disasters. We find that all the three disaster types considered in this study including … remittances and social allowances can help households strengthen the resilience to natural disasters. Households in communes with …

This paper estimates the growth impact of disasters, with a focus on developing Asia and its subregions. It finds that … severe disasters slow down annual growth in the Pacific island countries by between 1 and 2 percentage points on average …. This should come as no surprise, given these economies' extreme exposure, structural vulnerability, and small size relative …

purchase in an amount of SDR 103.35 million under the IMF’s policy for emergency assistance related to natural disasters. In …

Each year natural disasters affect about 200 million people and cause about $50 billion in damage. This paper compares … the incidence of natural disasters across countries along several dimensions and finds that the relative costs tend to be … disasters are found to have had a discernible macroeconomic impact, including large effects on fiscal and external balances …