The Cost of Fire : An Economic Analysis of Indonesia’s 2015 Fire Crisis

In a five-month period, man-made fire cost Indonesia $16.1 billion or 2 percent of GDP in 2015. An estimated 2.6 million hectares – an area four times the size of Bali – burned. While the 2015 fires were some of the worst in recent years (in part as a result of el Nino), they are by no means a singu...

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Main Authors: Glauber, Ann Jeannette, Moyer, Sarah, Adriani, Magda, Gunawan, Iwan
Format: Brief
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Jakarta 2016
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/03/26010885/cost-fire-economic-analysis-indonesia’s-2015-fire-crisis
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23840