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Climate-related disasters in Asia and the Pacific
Thomas, Vinod; Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Perez, Rosa T. - 2013
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 …
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Electoral earthquake : natural disasters and the geography of discontent
Cerqua, Augusto; Ferrante, Chiara; Letta, Marco - 2021
affected areas. Such heterogeneous patterns mainly originate from a stark contrast in post-disaster reconstruction processes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494012
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Quality infrastructure and natural disaster resiliency
Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad; Yoshino, Naoyuki; Mortha, Aline - 2019
of quality infrastructure, development indicators and corruption on damages caused by a natural disaster using a panel … model, the study quantified the role of quality infrastructure in disaster impact mitigation. The empirical results suggest …
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Is disaster risk reduction spending driven by the occurrence of natural disasters? : evidence from Peru
Miller, Sebastián; Vela, Mauricio A. - 2014
This paper studies the allocation of total disaster risk reduction public spending among regions in Peru. The main … received by region in order to prevent future natural disasters. Impacts of geological disaster, on the other hand, affect the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285568
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Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction : success or warning sign for Paris?
Myšiak, Jaroslav; Surminski, Swenja; Thieken, Annegret; … - 2015
In March 2015, a new international blueprint for disaster risk reduction (DRR) has been adopted in Sendai, Japan, at … the end of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR, March 14 - 18, 2015). We review and discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299221
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Natural disasters, growth and institutions : a tale of two earthquakes
Barone, Guglielmo; Mocetti, Sauro - 2013
better define the geographic area hit by the disaster. We examine two large-scale earthquakes that occurred in two different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543882
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Borrowers under water! : rare disasters, regional banks, and recovery lending
Koetter, Michael; Noth, Felix; Rehbein, Oliver - 2016
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
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Same Storm, Different Disasters : Consumer Credit Access, Income Inequality, and Natural Disaster Recovery
Roth Tran, Brigitte - 2019
Natural disasters often produce large income shocks to households. We analyze the impact of natural disasters on household finances. Using a triple differences approach, we estimate the effect of natural disasters on credit card outcomes for individuals in varying financial positions receiving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871424
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Disaster Risk
Boccard, Nicolas - 2020
The United Nations Sendai (2015) framework aims to reduce disaster risk. We offer a careful definition and computation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852956
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Natural Disasters, Growth and Institutions : A Tale of Two Earthquakes
Barone, Guglielmo - 2014
We examine the impact of natural disasters on GDP per capita by applying the synthetic control approach. Our analysis encompasses two large-scale earthquakes that occurred in two different Italian regions in 1976 and 1980. We show that the short-term effects are negligible in both regions,...
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