Poverty and Floods in Cap-Haïtien
Nested in a bay, the Cap-Haïtien, Haiti second largest city, is home to a large river basin characterized by rapid and uncontrolled urbanization and fears devastating floods during the rainy season. In Haiti, frequent and severe adverse natural eve...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/989371593676517939/Poverty-and-Floods-in-Cap-Haïtien http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34165 |
| Summary: | Nested in a bay, the Cap-Haïtien, Haiti
second largest city, is home to a large river basin
characterized by rapid and uncontrolled urbanization and
fears devastating floods during the rainy season. In Haiti,
frequent and severe adverse natural events affect negatively
households, and even more the poorest. In Cap-Haïtien, high
structural vulnerability of infrastructure and high exposure
to floods, increasing households’ vulnerability to falling
into poverty traps. The purpose of this report is to
describe the nature of floods in Cap-Haïtien and its
relationship with poverty. The report is structured as
follows, the authors begin with a brief literature review of
the nexus between exposure, vulnerability and resilience to
natural disasters, and poverty. In section 3, the authors
describe the data beginning with the socio-economic
characteristics of households in Cap-Haïtien including their
demographics, nature of their dwellings, economic
activities. In section 4, the authors examine the exposure
of households to floods by describing the profiles of
affected households. Section 5 examines the vulnerability of
households to floods by using simple regressions to estimate
the effects of floods on household welfare and the
heterogeneity of the impact across households. In section 6,
the authors examine households’ resilience to floods by
describing the strategies used to prepare for and cope with
floods. The concluding section focuses on implications of
the results. |
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