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Natural Disaster and Vulnerability

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  • Jeff Dayton-Johnson

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The tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004, to which more than 225 000 deaths had been attributed by the United Nations’ six-month review in June 2005, elicited a worldwide humanitarian relief effort unprecedented in its scale; individuals, firms, non-governmental organisations and governments rapidly marshalled billions of dollars of assistance. Even as reconstruction was barely underway, however, many observers could not escape concluding that many of the dead, the injured, the displaced, were victims primarily because they...

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  • Jeff Dayton-Johnson, 2006. "Natural Disaster and Vulnerability," OECD Development Centre Policy Briefs 29, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:devaab:29-en
    DOI: 10.1787/202670544086
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    1. Eliza Lis & Christiane Nickel, 2010. "The impact of extreme weather events on budget balances," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 17(4), pages 378-399, August.
    2. Archana Raghavan Sathyan & Christoph Funk & Thomas Aenis & Lutz Breuer, 2018. "Climate Vulnerability in Rainfed Farming: Analysis from Indian Watersheds," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-27, September.
    3. Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad & Sarker, Tapan & Yoshino, Naoyuki & Mortha, Aline & Vo, Xuan Vinh, 2021. "Quality infrastructure and natural disaster resiliency: A panel analysis of Asia and the Pacific," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 69(C), pages 394-406.
    4. Lis, Eliza & Nickel, Christiane, 2009. "The impact of extreme weather events on budget balances and implications for fiscal policy," Working Paper Series 1055, European Central Bank.
    5. Mark Edem Kunawotor & Godfred Alufar Bokpin & Patrick O. Asuming & Kofi A. Amoateng, 2022. "The implications of climate change and extreme weather events for fiscal balance and fiscal policy in Africa," Journal of Social and Economic Development, Springer;Institute for Social and Economic Change, vol. 24(2), pages 470-492, December.

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