contains exogenous measures of physical disaster intensity, well suited for causal analysis. Empirical results suggest that … disaster in the top 1-percentile of the disaster index distribution increases government debt by almost 9 percent of GDP, while …

Disaster is an event that shapes our future. During a disaster, it affects lives, infrastructures, livestock and … produce, and we can only adapt to it. The aim of this study is to analyze disaster awareness and level of compliance to … disaster programs of selected individuals in a highly urbanized city in Central Luzon, Philippines. The study made use of a …

natural disaster devastation magnitude rate (Π); (iv) the economic desgrowth rate (δ); (v) and the natural hazards …

Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater …. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination, the most significant association is between the …

affected areas. Such heterogeneous patterns mainly originate from a stark contrast in post-disaster reconstruction processes …

This paper studies how having your home damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster impacts on economic and financial …

The Pacific Islands face the highest disaster risk, in per capita terms, globally. Examples of catastrophic events in … analysing the applicability of various financial instruments to facilitate both ex-ante and ex-post disaster risk management in …

research on the topic of disasters. As such, we choose to focus on two topics: price gouging, and post-disaster economic …

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 …