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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2016/11/14
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS7887
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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
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drought