The high cost of low quality infrastructure when natural disasters strike
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Natural Disasters; Quality Infrastructure;JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- O20 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - General
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
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