pre-disaster trend, and do not recover within twenty years. Both rich and poor countries exhibit this response, with … suppression of annual growth rates spread across the fifteen years following disaster, generating large and significant cumulative … continuous exposure to disaster. Linking these results to projections of future cyclone activity, we estimate that under …

year 2100, while the ratio to world GDP is 0.006%. The US and China account for much of the absolute damage, whereas small … choice of baseline and of the wind-speed elasticity of storm damage. -- climate change ; tropical storms ; economic impact …

how disasters affect long-run growth. Based on truly exogenous storm indicators, derived from a meteorological database … protect against storm consequences. We show that the negative growth effects in underdeveloped countries are amplified by an …

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 …