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Impact Estimation of Disasters : A Global Aggregate for 1960 to 2007

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dc.contributor.authorOkuyama, Yasuhide
dc.contributor.authorSahin, Sebnem
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-19T19:10:56Z
dc.date.available2012-03-19T19:10:56Z
dc.date.issued2009-06-01
dc.description.abstractThis paper aims to estimate the global aggregate of disaster impacts during 1960 to 2007 using Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) methodology. The authors selected 184 major disasters in terms of the size of economic damages, based on the data available from the International Emergency Disasters and MunichRe (NatCat) databases for natural catastrophes. They estimate the losses and total impacts including the higher-order effects of these disasters using social accounting matrices constructed for this study. Although the aggregate damages based on the data amount to US$742 billion, the aggregate losses and total impacts are estimated at US$360 billion and US$678 billion, respectively. The results show a growing trend of economic impacts over time in absolute value. However, once the data and estimates are normalized using global gross domestic product, the historical trend of total impacts becomes statistically insignificant. The visual observation confirms the inverted U curve distribution between total impact and income level, while statistical analyses indicate negative linear relationships between them for climatological, geophysical, and especially hydrological events.en
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dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-4963
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/4157
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4963
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectADVERSE IMPACT
dc.subjectAGRICULTURE
dc.subjectCASUALTIES
dc.subjectCATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES
dc.subjectCATASTROPHIC EVENT
dc.subjectCENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectCOMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
dc.subjectCRED
dc.subjectDAMAGES
dc.subjectDAT DATABASE
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT NETWORK
dc.subjectDISASTER
dc.subjectDISASTER COMMUNITY
dc.subjectDISASTER MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectDISASTER MANAGEMENT FACILITY
dc.subjectDISASTER REDUCTION
dc.subjectDISASTER RISK
dc.subjectDISASTER RISK REDUCTION
dc.subjectDISASTER TYPE
dc.subjectDISASTER TYPES
dc.subjectDISASTERS
dc.subjectDOCUMENTS
dc.subjectDROUGHT
dc.subjectDROUGHTS
dc.subjectEARTHQUAKE
dc.subjectEARTHQUAKES
dc.subjectECONOMIC IMPACT
dc.subjectECONOMIC INEQUALITY
dc.subjectECONOMIC RESEARCH
dc.subjectECONOMIC STRUCTURE
dc.subjectECONOMIC STRUCTURES
dc.subjectELASTICITY
dc.subjectFISCAL POLICY
dc.subjectFLOOD
dc.subjectFLOODS
dc.subjectGDP
dc.subjectGDP PER CAPITA
dc.subjectGROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
dc.subjectHURRICANE
dc.subjectHURRICANES
dc.subjectIMPACT OF DISASTERS
dc.subjectINCOME
dc.subjectINCOME LEVELS
dc.subjectINSECT INFESTATIONS
dc.subjectINSURANCE
dc.subjectINTERNATIONAL STRATEGY FOR DISASTER REDUCTION
dc.subjectLANDSLIDES
dc.subjectMULTIPLIERS
dc.subjectNATIONAL INCOME
dc.subjectNATURAL CATASTROPHES
dc.subjectNATURAL DISASTER
dc.subjectNATURAL DISASTERS
dc.subjectNATURAL HAZARD
dc.subjectNATURAL HAZARDS
dc.subjectPOLITICAL ECONOMY
dc.subjectRECONSTRUCTION
dc.subjectREGRESSION ANALYSIS
dc.subjectRELIEF
dc.subjectRELIEF EFFORTS
dc.subjectSOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS
dc.subjectSTATISTICAL ANALYSES
dc.subjectSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS
dc.subjectSTORM
dc.subjectSTORMS
dc.subjectTSUNAMI
dc.subjectTYPE OF DISASTER
dc.subjectTYPE OF DISASTERS
dc.subjectVALUE ADDED
dc.subjectVOLCANIC ERUPTIONS
dc.subjectVOLCANO
dc.subjectWEALTH
dc.titleImpact Estimation of Disasters : A Global Aggregate for 1960 to 2007en
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okr.crossref.titleImpact Estimation Of Disasters: A Global Aggregate For 1960 To 2007
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-4963
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