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Catastrophic events, such as cyclones, floods, droughts, terrorism, or cybercrime, are astronomically on the increase the world over. These events disrupt businesses' smooth continuity leading to reputational digital data and financial losses among others. Zimbabwe's districts of Chimanimani and...
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Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not only have contemporaneous …
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variability in the weather and the increase in the number of extreme weather disasters associated with climate change. The … objective of this paper is to examine the inter-linkages between weather, disasters, and migration, in India. To examine the … development are more likely to face out-migration driven by weather variations and disasters. Internal migration is seasonal …
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in a representative survey of U.S. consumers. We find, in particular, that costly natural disasters are salient of … climate change. Second, we calibrate a New Keynesian model with rare disasters to the survey results and find that shifts in …
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Data shows that there has been a five-fold increase in the number of climate-related disasters that the world has … witnessed over the last fifty years. Just between 2000 and 2019, 7,348 reported disasters caused 1.23 million deaths, affecting … quick-onset disasters such as floods, typhoons, and cyclones have resulted in more damages and loss of lives in the past two …
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. For Guatemala, we find no robust statistically significant effects on these types of disasters. However, in Costa Rica, we …
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A growing number of studies have explored the influence of institution on the outcomes of disasters and accidents from … the viewpoint of political economy. This paper focuses on the probability of the occurrence of disasters rather than … probability of technological disasters. It was found that public sector corruption raises the probability of technological …
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We examine the directly observable determinants of sub-national (central to local) public spending allocations for disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation in Bangladesh, a country with a very high exposure to weather risk. We use a comprehensive dataset for the 483 sub-districts...
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. Uncertainty about the future rate of growth of the economy and emissions and the risk of macroeconomic disasters (tail risks) also …
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We evaluate the change in international reserves in the aftermath of significant external shocks. We examine the response of international reserves to shocks by using a quasi-experimental setup and focusing on earthquakes. The estimation is done on a panel of 103 countries over the period...
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