The Reallocation of District-Level Spending and Natural Disasters : Evidence from Indonesia

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, ear...

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Main Authors:	Skoufias, Emmanuel, Strobl, Eric, Tveit, Thomas
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	DISASTER RISK FINANCE NATURAL DISASTER DAMAGE INDEX PUBLIC FINANCE TOURISM PUBLIC EXPENDITURE RISK MANAGEMENT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/837261520342513596/The-reallocation-of-district-level-spending-and-natural-disasters-evidence-from-Indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29425

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spelling	okr-10986-294252021-06-08T14:42:48Z The Reallocation of District-Level Spending and Natural Disasters : Evidence from Indonesia Skoufias, Emmanuel Strobl, Eric Tveit, Thomas DISASTER RISK FINANCE NATURAL DISASTER DAMAGE INDEX PUBLIC FINANCE TOURISM PUBLIC EXPENDITURE RISK MANAGEMENT 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 spending away from the category of general administration to sectors such as health and infrastructure. Moreover, volcanic eruptions seem to lead to less investment in durable assets both in the year of the disaster as well as the following year. Overall, these results highlight the potentially useful role of a national disaster risk financing insurance program toward maintaining a relatively stable level of district-level spending in different sectors. 2018-03-06T17:54:52Z 2018-03-06T17:54:52Z 2018-03 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/837261520342513596/The-reallocation-of-district-level-spending-and-natural-disasters-evidence-from-Indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29425 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8359 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific Indonesia
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description	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 spending away from the category of general administration to sectors such as health and infrastructure. Moreover, volcanic eruptions seem to lead to less investment in durable assets both in the year of the disaster as well as the following year. Overall, these results highlight the potentially useful role of a national disaster risk financing insurance program toward maintaining a relatively stable level of district-level spending in different sectors.
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author	Skoufias, Emmanuel Strobl, Eric Tveit, Thomas
author_facet	Skoufias, Emmanuel Strobl, Eric Tveit, Thomas
author_sort	Skoufias, Emmanuel
title	The Reallocation of District-Level Spending and Natural Disasters : Evidence from Indonesia
title_short	The Reallocation of District-Level Spending and Natural Disasters : Evidence from Indonesia
title_full	The Reallocation of District-Level Spending and Natural Disasters : Evidence from Indonesia
title_fullStr	The Reallocation of District-Level Spending and Natural Disasters : Evidence from Indonesia
title_full_unstemmed	The Reallocation of District-Level Spending and Natural Disasters : Evidence from Indonesia
title_sort	reallocation of district-level spending and natural disasters : evidence from indonesia
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/837261520342513596/The-reallocation-of-district-level-spending-and-natural-disasters-evidence-from-Indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29425
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The Reallocation of District-Level Spending and Natural Disasters : Evidence from Indonesia

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