This paper combines district-level government spending data from Indonesia and natural disaster damage indices to analyze the extent to which districts are forced to reallocate their expenditures across categories after the incidence of floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. The results reveal that district government spending is quite sensitive to the incidence of natural disasters at the local level. In the case of floods, districts reallocate...
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2018/03/06
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS8359
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2018/03/06
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Disclosed
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The reallocation of district-level spending and natural disasters : evidence from Indonesia
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Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Program