that being subjected to floods increases the incidence of poverty. The capacity of flood risk management and governance … of Benin. To this end, a survey was conducted on 228 farmers in two municipalities of the flood-prone part of the semi …-structured interviews. Data were analyzed using income and consumption approaches focusing on poverty and on subjective assessment using …

year flood events. The majority of flood exposed people, about 1.36 billion, are located in South and East Asia; China (329 … flood risk, 89 percent live in low- and middle-income countries. Of the 132 million people who are estimated to live in both … extreme poverty (under …

concludes with two policy implications. First, flood management could be considered as a component of the poverty … who were affected and those who were not affected by the flood. (2) Poorer households lost less than their richer … of income, and access to coping mechanisms, but not by their poverty, as measured by the annual expenditure level. (4 …

inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct …-being effects for the affected households. It is estimated that households' losses due to the April 2018 flood reached more than USD … households were less likely to recover from flood exposure. The report finds that access to finance play an important role in …

those months to assess the short-term impact of the 2015 flood on household consumption and poverty levels. Applying a … were affected significantly more. Poverty levels also increased due to the flood, by about 6 percentage points. These …Mozambique is among the most disaster-prone countries in the world. A bigger than usual, and mostly unexpected, flood …