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The Road to Recovery: The Role of Poverty in the Exposure, Vulnerability and Resilience to Floods in Accra

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dc.contributor.authorErman, Alvina
dc.contributor.authorMotte, Elliot
dc.contributor.authorGoyal, Radhika
dc.contributor.authorAsare, Akosua
dc.contributor.authorTakamatsu, Shinya
dc.contributor.authorChen, Xiaomeng
dc.contributor.authorMalgioglio, Silvia
dc.contributor.authorSkinner, Alexander
dc.contributor.authorYoshida, Nobuo
dc.contributor.authorHallegatte, Stephane
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-19T15:09:12Z
dc.date.available2018-06-19T15:09:12Z
dc.date.issued2018-06
dc.description.abstractIn June 2015, about 53,000 people were affected by unusually severe floods in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana. The real impact of such a disaster is a product of exposure ("Who was affected?"), vulnerability ("How much did the affected households lose?"), and socioeconomic resilience ("What was their ability to cope and recover?"). This study explores these three dimensions to assess whether poor people were disproportionally affected by the 2015 floods. It reaches four main conclusions. (1) In the studied area, there is no difference in annual expenditures between the households who were affected and those who were not affected by the flood. (2) Poorer households lost less than their richer neighbors in absolute terms, but more when compared with their annual expenditure level, and poorer households are over-represented among the most severely affected households. (3) More than 30 percent of the affected households report not having recovered two years after the shock, and the ability of households to recover was driven by the magnitude of their losses, sources of income, and access to coping mechanisms, but not by their poverty, as measured by the annual expenditure level. (4) There is a measurable effect of the flood on behaviors, under-mining savings and investment in enterprises. The study concludes with two policy implications. First, flood management could be considered as a component of the poverty-reduction strategy in the city. Second, building resilience is not only about increasing income. It also requires providing the population with coping and recovery mechanisms such as financial instruments. A flood management program needs to be designed to target low-resilience households, such as those with little access to coping and recovery mechanisms, even those who are not living in poverty before the shock.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/264651528401990188/The-road-to-recovery-the-role-of-poverty-in-the-exposure-vulnerability-and-resilience-to-floods-in-Accra
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8469
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/29898
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 8469
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectFLOODS
dc.subjectPOVERTY
dc.subjectRESILIENCE
dc.subjectVULNERABILITY
dc.subjectNATURAL DISASTERS
dc.subjectCOPING STRATEGIES
dc.subjectINVESTMENT
dc.subjectENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
dc.titleThe Road to Recoveryen
dc.title.subtitleThe Role of Poverty in the Exposure, Vulnerability and Resilience to Floods in Accraen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
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dc.typeDocumento de trabajoes
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okr.crossref.titleThe Road to Recovery: The Role of Poverty in the Exposure, Vulnerability and Resilience to Floods in Accra
okr.date.disclosure2018-06-07
okr.doctypePublications & Research
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okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/264651528401990188/The-road-to-recovery-the-role-of-poverty-in-the-exposure-vulnerability-and-resilience-to-floods-in-Accra
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8469
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okr.identifier.internaldocumentum29969267
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/264651528401990188/pdf/WPS8469.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.countryGhana
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okr.topicCommunities and Human Settlements::Urban Housing and Land Settlements
okr.topicEnvironment::Natural Disasters
okr.topicUrban Development::Hazard Risk Management
okr.topicUrban Development::Urban Governance and Management
okr.topicWater Resources::Flood Control
okr.unitGlobal Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery; the Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice; and the Poverty and Equity Global Practice
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