Potential for Application of a Probabilistic Catastrophe Risk Modelling Framework to Poverty Outcomes : General Form Vulnerability Functions Relating Household Poverty Outcomes to Hazard Intensity in Ethiopia

This paper analyzes the potential to combine catastrophe risk modelling (CAT risk modeling) with economic analysis of vulnerability to poverty using the example of drought hazard impacts on the welfare of rural households in Ethiopia. The aim is to...

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Main Authors: Porter, Catherine, White, Emily
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/06/26510000/potential-application-probabilistic-catastrophe-risk-modelling-framework-poverty-outcomes-general-form-vulnerability-functions-relating-household-poverty-outcomes-hazard-intensity-ethiopia
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24634