Natural Disasters, Poverty, and Inequality : New Metrics for Fairer Policies (English)

Conventional risk assessments underestimate the human and macroeconomic costs of disasters, leading to inefficient risk management strategies. This happens because conventional assessments focus on asset losses, neglecting important relationships between vulnerability and development. When affected by a hazard, poor households take longer to recover from disasters and are more likely to face long-term consequences. Forced to manage trade-offs between...

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Hallegatte,Stephane;

Walsh,Brian James;
Document Date
2021/10/28
Document Type
Journal Article
Report Number
166657
Volume No
1
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1
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World,
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Other,
Disclosure Date
2023/04/28
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Disclosed
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Natural Disasters, Poverty, and Inequality : New Metrics for Fairer Policies
Keywords
asset loss

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Hallegatte,Stephane; Walsh,Brian James.

Natural Disasters, Poverty, and Inequality : New Metrics for Fairer Policies (English). Author accepted manuscript Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/702201639436944412

Natural Disasters, Poverty, and Inequality : New Metrics for Fairer Policies (English)

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