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The sources of economic growth and development have been puzzling economists from the modern dawn of the profession. While the Solow-Swan neo-classical model dominated research on growth in the 1960s and 1970s, the 1980s saw the emergence of growth theories that disputed, largely on theoretical...
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Recent empirical research has shown that income per capita in the aftermath of natural disasters is not necessarily lower than before the event. Income remains in many cases not significantly affected or, perhaps even more surprisingly, it responds positively to natural disasters. Here, we...
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Recent empirical research has shown that output and GDP per capita in the aftermath of natural disasters are not necessarily lower than before the event. In many cases, both are not significantly affected and, surprisingly, sometimes they are found to respond positively to natural disasters....
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Recent empirical research has shown that income per capita in the aftermath of natural disasters is not necessarily lower than before the event. In many cases, income is not significantly affected and surprisingly, can even respond positively to natural disasters. Here, we propose a simple...
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This paper seeks to determine the effects that natural disasters have on per capita GDP and on the debt to GDP ratio in the Caribbean. Two types of natural disasters are studied –storms and floods– given their prevalence in the region, while considering the effects of both moderate and...
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Recent empirical research has shown that income per capita in the aftermath of natural disasters is not necessarily lower than before the event. Income remains in many cases not significantly affected or, perhaps even more surprisingly, it responds positively to natural disasters. Here, we...
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average. We find that countries that have in place disaster preparedness mechanisms and lower public debt have lower … probability of witnessing a significant drop in growth as a consequence of a natural disaster, but our innovative methodology in … this paper finds that the two policies are complements since their effectiveness vary across different disaster scenarios …
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simulated storm surge level for the 100-year storm surge, we analyze permanently inundated lands and temporary flood zones. As … which surge is launched, but our method quantified the increase for disaster planning and vulnerability assessment purposes … respond to these threats. -- sea level rise ; storm surge ; tropical cyclone risk ; flood risk ; South East Asia …
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