Showing 1 - 10 of 91,172
policies to reduce household vulnerability, including the role of discounting. In particular, we highlight the limited coping …We provide an initial framework regarding priorities for government programs to reduce the natural-disaster … conceptual framework for understanding resilience at the household level and evidence from the PCED Social Protection Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390556
This study identifies the factors influencing household choice of coping strategy to an extreme flood event in Marikina … City in the national capital region of the Philippines, as well as household recovery after the event, measured in terms of …. A multinomial logistic model was used to analyze coping strategy choice among three possible alternatives: (1) reactive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333499
disaster prone countries with weak social safety nets. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129946
disaster prone countries with weak social safety nets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898029
policies to reduce household vulnerability, including the role of discounting. In particular, we highlight the limited coping …We provide an initial framework regarding priorities for government programs to reduce the natural-disaster … conceptual framework for understanding resilience at the household level and evidence from the PCED Social Protection Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011583227
already recovered. Using the PCED Social Protection Survey conducted 6 months after the disaster, we find that 36% of the … households have yet to experience even partial recovery. We investigate the various coping mechanisms that the Yolanda …-affected families have employed to aid in their recovery using logit-regression analysis. We find that the most prominent coping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011583228
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337593
Climate-related natural disaster shocks are expected to rise as the earth is getting warmer, which will adversely … of development gains and exacerbate inequality. To cope with increasing disaster risks, both short-term adaptation … strategies like relocation, government transfers, and other social safety nets, as well as long-term strategies like disaster …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580303
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011566474
that reside in counties unaffected by the natural disaster that we specify as macro shock increase lending to firms inside …-seeking. However, within the group of shock-exposed banks, those without access to geographically more diversified interbank markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961070