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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Format: | Working Paper |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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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 |