Natural Disasters and Household Welfare : Evidence from Vietnam
As natural disasters hit with increasing frequency, especially in coastal areas, it is imperative to better understand how much natural disasters affect economies and their people. This requires disaggregated measures of natural disasters that can...
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okr-10986-39742021-04-23T14:02:14Z Natural Disasters and Household Welfare : Evidence from Vietnam Thomas, Timothy Christiaensen, Luc Do, Quy Toan Trung, Le Dang ADAPTATION AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT AGRICULTURAL DROUGHTS ANISOTROPY BANKS CALCULATION CLIMATE CLIMATOLOGY CLOUD COVER CLOUDS COASTAL DISASTERS COASTAL FLOOD COASTAL FLOODS COPING CAPACITY CRU CYCLONE TRACKS DAMAGES DISASTER AID DISASTER ASSISTANCE DISASTER MANAGEMENT DISASTER PREVENTION DISASTER PRONE COUNTRIES DISASTER RECOVERY DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RELIEF DISASTER RISK DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT DISASTER RISK REDUCTION DISASTER RISKS DISASTER TYPES DROUGHT DROUGHT EVENTS DROUGHT FREQUENCY DROUGHT INDICES DROUGHT RISK DROUGHTS DRY MONTHS ELECTRICITY EXTREME EVENTS EXTREME WEATHER EXTREME WEATHER EVENT EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS FAMINES FLOOD FLOOD CONTROL FLOOD EVENTS FLOOD PRONE AREAS FLOODED FLOODING FLOODS FOOD AID HEAVY RAIN HEAVY RAINFALL HURRICANE HURRICANES HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHTS IMPACTS OF DROUGHTS INSURANCE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY FOR DISASTER REDUCTION LAKES LAND USE LANDSLIDES LOSSES FROM FLOODS METEOROLOGICAL DATA MITIGATION NATURAL DISASTER NATURAL DISASTERS NATURAL HAZARD NATURAL HAZARDS PP PRECIPITATION RADIOACTIVITY RECONSTRUCTION RELIEF EFFORTS RISK ANALYSIS SAFETY SAVINGS SELF INSURANCE STORM STORM TRACKS STORMS TEMPERATURE TROPICAL CYCLONE TROPICAL CYCLONES TROPICAL STORM TROPICAL STORMS WATER SHORTAGES WATER TANK WEATHER PATTERNS WIND WIND SPEED WIND SPEEDS As natural disasters hit with increasing frequency, especially in coastal areas, it is imperative to better understand how much natural disasters affect economies and their people. This requires disaggregated measures of natural disasters that can be reliably linked to households, the first challenge this paper tackles. In particular, a methodology is illustrated to create natural disaster and hazard maps from first hand, geo-referenced meteorological data. In a second step, the repeated cross-sectional national living standard measurement surveys (2002, 2004, and 2006) from Vietnam are augmented with the natural disaster measures derived in the first phase, to estimate the welfare effects associated with natural disasters. The results indicate that short-run losses from natural disasters can be substantial, with riverine floods causing welfare losses of up to 23 percent and hurricanes reducing welfare by up to 52 percent inside cities with a population over 500,000. Households are better able to cope with the short-run effects of droughts, largely due to irrigation. There are also important long-run negative effects, in Vietnam mostly so for droughts, flash floods, and hurricanes. Geographical differentiation in the welfare effects across space and disaster appears partly linked to the functioning of the disaster relief system, which has so far largely eluded households in areas regularly affected by hurricane force winds. 2012-03-19T18:43:08Z 2012-03-19T18:43:08Z 2010-12-01 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20101203104559 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3974 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5491 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific East Asia and Pacific Southeast Asia Asia Vietnam |
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ADAPTATION AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT AGRICULTURAL DROUGHTS ANISOTROPY BANKS CALCULATION CLIMATE CLIMATOLOGY CLOUD COVER CLOUDS COASTAL DISASTERS COASTAL FLOOD COASTAL FLOODS COPING CAPACITY CRU CYCLONE TRACKS DAMAGES DISASTER AID DISASTER ASSISTANCE DISASTER MANAGEMENT DISASTER PREVENTION DISASTER PRONE COUNTRIES DISASTER RECOVERY DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RELIEF DISASTER RISK DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT DISASTER RISK REDUCTION DISASTER RISKS DISASTER TYPES DROUGHT DROUGHT EVENTS DROUGHT FREQUENCY DROUGHT INDICES DROUGHT RISK DROUGHTS DRY MONTHS ELECTRICITY EXTREME EVENTS EXTREME WEATHER EXTREME WEATHER EVENT EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS FAMINES FLOOD FLOOD CONTROL FLOOD EVENTS FLOOD PRONE AREAS FLOODED FLOODING FLOODS FOOD AID HEAVY RAIN HEAVY RAINFALL HURRICANE HURRICANES HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHTS IMPACTS OF DROUGHTS INSURANCE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY FOR DISASTER REDUCTION LAKES LAND USE LANDSLIDES LOSSES FROM FLOODS METEOROLOGICAL DATA MITIGATION NATURAL DISASTER NATURAL DISASTERS NATURAL HAZARD NATURAL HAZARDS PP PRECIPITATION RADIOACTIVITY RECONSTRUCTION RELIEF EFFORTS RISK ANALYSIS SAFETY SAVINGS SELF INSURANCE STORM STORM TRACKS STORMS TEMPERATURE TROPICAL CYCLONE TROPICAL CYCLONES TROPICAL STORM TROPICAL STORMS WATER SHORTAGES WATER TANK WEATHER PATTERNS WIND WIND SPEED WIND SPEEDS |
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ADAPTATION AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT AGRICULTURAL DROUGHTS ANISOTROPY BANKS CALCULATION CLIMATE CLIMATOLOGY CLOUD COVER CLOUDS COASTAL DISASTERS COASTAL FLOOD COASTAL FLOODS COPING CAPACITY CRU CYCLONE TRACKS DAMAGES DISASTER AID DISASTER ASSISTANCE DISASTER MANAGEMENT DISASTER PREVENTION DISASTER PRONE COUNTRIES DISASTER RECOVERY DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RELIEF DISASTER RISK DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT DISASTER RISK REDUCTION DISASTER RISKS DISASTER TYPES DROUGHT DROUGHT EVENTS DROUGHT FREQUENCY DROUGHT INDICES DROUGHT RISK DROUGHTS DRY MONTHS ELECTRICITY EXTREME EVENTS EXTREME WEATHER EXTREME WEATHER EVENT EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS FAMINES FLOOD FLOOD CONTROL FLOOD EVENTS FLOOD PRONE AREAS FLOODED FLOODING FLOODS FOOD AID HEAVY RAIN HEAVY RAINFALL HURRICANE HURRICANES HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHTS IMPACTS OF DROUGHTS INSURANCE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY FOR DISASTER REDUCTION LAKES LAND USE LANDSLIDES LOSSES FROM FLOODS METEOROLOGICAL DATA MITIGATION NATURAL DISASTER NATURAL DISASTERS NATURAL HAZARD NATURAL HAZARDS PP PRECIPITATION RADIOACTIVITY RECONSTRUCTION RELIEF EFFORTS RISK ANALYSIS SAFETY SAVINGS SELF INSURANCE STORM STORM TRACKS STORMS TEMPERATURE TROPICAL CYCLONE TROPICAL CYCLONES TROPICAL STORM TROPICAL STORMS WATER SHORTAGES WATER TANK WEATHER PATTERNS WIND WIND SPEED WIND SPEEDS Thomas, Timothy Christiaensen, Luc Do, Quy Toan Trung, Le Dang Natural Disasters and Household Welfare : Evidence from Vietnam |
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East Asia and Pacific East Asia and Pacific Southeast Asia Asia Vietnam |
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Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5491 |
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As natural disasters hit with increasing
frequency, especially in coastal areas, it is imperative to
better understand how much natural disasters affect
economies and their people. This requires disaggregated
measures of natural disasters that can be reliably linked to
households, the first challenge this paper tackles. In
particular, a methodology is illustrated to create natural
disaster and hazard maps from first hand, geo-referenced
meteorological data. In a second step, the repeated
cross-sectional national living standard measurement surveys
(2002, 2004, and 2006) from Vietnam are augmented with the
natural disaster measures derived in the first phase, to
estimate the welfare effects associated with natural
disasters. The results indicate that short-run losses from
natural disasters can be substantial, with riverine floods
causing welfare losses of up to 23 percent and hurricanes
reducing welfare by up to 52 percent inside cities with a
population over 500,000. Households are better able to cope
with the short-run effects of droughts, largely due to
irrigation. There are also important long-run negative
effects, in Vietnam mostly so for droughts, flash floods,
and hurricanes. Geographical differentiation in the welfare
effects across space and disaster appears partly linked to
the functioning of the disaster relief system, which has so
far largely eluded households in areas regularly affected by
hurricane force winds. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Thomas, Timothy Christiaensen, Luc Do, Quy Toan Trung, Le Dang |
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Thomas, Timothy Christiaensen, Luc Do, Quy Toan Trung, Le Dang |
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Thomas, Timothy |
| title |
Natural Disasters and Household Welfare : Evidence from Vietnam |
| title_short |
Natural Disasters and Household Welfare : Evidence from Vietnam |
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Natural Disasters and Household Welfare : Evidence from Vietnam |
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Natural Disasters and Household Welfare : Evidence from Vietnam |
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Natural Disasters and Household Welfare : Evidence from Vietnam |
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natural disasters and household welfare : evidence from vietnam |
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2012 |
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http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20101203104559 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3974 |
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