Economic Resilience : Definition and Measurement

The welfare impact of a disaster does not only depend on the physical characteristics of the event or its direct impacts in terms of lost lives and assets. Welfare impacts also depend on the ability of the economy to cope, recover, and reconstruct...

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Main Author: Hallegatte, Stephane
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
GDP
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/05/19456702/economic-resilience-definition-measurement-economic-resilience-definition-measurement
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18341