Model and methods for estimating the number of people living in extreme poverty because of the direct impacts of natural disasters (English)

Natural disasters have an impact on poverty through many different channels -- economic growth, health, schooling, behaviors -- that are difficult to quantify. It is nonetheless possible to assess the short-term impacts of income losses. A counterfactual scenario is built of what people's income would be in developing countries in the absence of natural disasters. This scenario uses surveys of 1.4 million households in 89 countries. Depending on where...

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Rozenberg,Julie;

Hallegatte,Stephane;
Document Date
2016/11/14
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS7887
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1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2016/11/14
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Disclosed
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Model and methods for estimating the number of people living in extreme poverty because of the direct impacts of natural disasters
Keywords
drought

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Rozenberg,Julie; Hallegatte,Stephane.

Model and methods for estimating the number of people living in extreme poverty because of the direct impacts of natural disasters (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 7887 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/836301478979358386

Model and methods for estimating the number of people living in extreme poverty because of the direct impacts of natural disasters (English)

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