The Indirect Cost of Natural Disasters and an Economic Definition of Macroeconomic Resilience

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hallegatte, Stephane
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:
GDP
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24744802/indirect-cost-natural-disasters-economic-definition-macroeconomic-resilience
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22238