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Estimating the Direct Economic Damage of the Earthquake in Haiti
Cavallo, Eduardo Alfredo; Powell, Andrew; Becerra, Oscar - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper uses simple regression techniques to make an initial assessment of the monetary damages caused by the January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead and missing (i.e., the range of mortality that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943642
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Foreign Aid in the Aftermath of Large Natural Disasters
Cavallo, Eduardo Alfredo; Becerra, Oscar; Noy, Ilan - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper examines Official Development Assistance (ODA) in the aftermath of large natural disasters between 1970 and … only 3 percent of the total estimated economic damages caused by the disasters. The main determinants of post-disaster aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943823
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Estimating the direct economic damage of the earthquake in Haiti
Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Powell, Andrew; Becerra, Oscar - 2010
This paper uses simple regression techniques to make an initial assessment of the monetary damages caused by the January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead and missing (i.e., the range of mortality that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247138
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Foreign aid in the aftermath of large natural disasters
Becerra, Oscar; Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Noy, Ilan - In: Review of development economics 18 (2014) 3, pp. 445-460
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010503620
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Foreign aid in the aftermath of large natural disasters
Becerra, Oscar; Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Noy, Ilan - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009684079
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The impact of natural disasters on economic growth
Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Becerra, Oscar; Acevedo, Laura - 2021
This paper estimates the impact of catastrophic natural disasters on economic growth using an event study methodology … find that affected economies-which, given the way natural disasters are ranked, comprise mainly developing countries … effects on growth are negligible. Thus, the negative impacts of natural disasters on economic growth are larger for poorer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012628798
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Estimating the Direct Economic Damage of the Earthquake in Haiti
Cavallo, Eduardo; Powell, Andrew; Becerra, Oscar - 2010
This paper uses simple regression techniques to make an initial assessment of the monetary damages caused by the January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead and missing (i.e., the range of mortality that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328222
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The impact of natural disasters on economic growth
Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Becerra, Oscar; Acevedo, Laura - 2021
This paper estimates the impact of catastrophic natural disasters on economic growth using an event study methodology … find that affected economies-which, given the way natural disasters are ranked, comprise mainly developing countries … effects on growth are negligible. Thus, the negative impacts of natural disasters on economic growth are larger for poorer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658401
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In the aftermath of large natural disasters, what happens to foreign aid?
Becerra, Oscar; Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Noy, Ilan - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008857768
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Where is the money? : post-disaster foreign aid flows
Becerra, Oscar; Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Noy, Ilan - In: Environment and development economics 20 (2015) 5, pp. 561-586
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393197