Why Resilience Matters : The Poverty Impacts of Disasters
This paper presents empirical evidence of the profound and long-term damages from adverse natural events on poverty. It analyzes 30 years of macro-level damage data from disasters (including earthquakes, floods, and storms), according to income gro...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Publications & Research |
| Language: | English en_US |
| Published: |
World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/11/18503012/resilience-matters-poverty-impacts-disasters http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16915 |