The total and relative impact of a disaster is closely linked not only to severity of the natural phenomena but also to the resilience of the affected area, ...

PDF | The economic impacts of major disasters in the world are estimated and analyzed in this paper. The global trends of major disasters between 1960.

Large natural disasters reduce victims' income and consumption in the short term. Researchers lack causal estimates of the effects of natural disaster aid. More ...

22 окт. 2024 г. · Natural disasters that continue to occur will result in economic costs and scarcity of natural resources which ultimately threaten the ...

4 февр. 2023 г. · In this paper, we address these concerns using nearly four decades of data on U.S. counties to estimate both the shorter and longer-run local ...

Disasters affect the economic system in multiple ways and defining the cost of a disaster is tricky. Pelling et al. (2002), Lindell and Prater (2003) ...

Economic losses from natural disasters have been increasing in recent decades. This has been attributed mainly to population and economic growth in disaster- ...

In February 2000, the World Bank's. Disaster Management Facility (now called Hazard. Management Unit) initiated a three-year study on the economic and financial ...

It takes the economy about three years to repair damages from a 1% loss in the capital stock, but the reconstruction period increases to six and fourteen years ...

In this work, we use location data that were collected from mobile phones to estimate and analyze the causal impact of hurricanes on business performance. To ...