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Remote sensing of urban cyclone impact and resilience: Evidence from IdaiCyclone Idai, the most devastating cyclone ever recorded in Southern Africa, caused havoc in large parts of central Mozambique, especially the port city of Beira, upon its landfall in March 2019...
Remote sensing Natural disasters UrbanWorking Paper
Cash grants to manufacturers after Cyclone Idai: RCT evidence from MozambiqueIn March 2019, Cyclone Idai hit central Mozambique and caused widespread damage, including businesses in the enterprise sector...
Firms Manufacturing Natural disastersWorking Paper
Cyclone impacts on manufacturing firms in MozambiqueThis study investigates how manufacturing companies were affected by tropical Cyclone Idai, which struck Central Mozambique in March 2019...
Firms Natural disastersSeminar
Ricardo Santos presents on vulnerability to natural shocks in MozambiqueOn 3 April, Ricardo Santos, UNU-WIDER Research Fellow, will give a presentation at a seminar at the Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning ( CEDIL ) on ‘Vulnerability to Natural Shocks: Assessing the Short-Term Impact of...
Seminar
Vincenzo Salvucci presents at the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique 2019 seminar seriesVincenzo Salvucci, a researcher from the University of Copenhagen, will present a seminar on 13 March 2019 at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. The seminar is titled Vulnerabilidade às Calamidades Naturais: Avaliação do...
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Public disclosure for carbon abatement: African decision-makers in a PROPER public good experimentA linear public good experiment adopted from Holt and Laury [1997. Classroom games: Voluntary provision of a public good...
Field experiments Pollution Public goodsVideo
Agriculture Adaptation OptionsConference on Climate Change and Development Policy - Parallel 5.3
Natural disasters Financial crisis AgricultureVideo
Climate Change and Human Conflict in Sub-Saharan AfricaConference on Climate Change and Development Policy - Parallel 6.1
Political economy Natural disasters Climate changeVideo
Social ProtectionConference on Climate Change and Development Policy - Parallel 6.2
Households Natural disasters CreditJournal Article
Risks of Coastal Storm Surge and the Effect of Sea Level Rise in the Red River Delta, VietnamPart of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries
Climate change Environment Natural disastersWorking Paper
Public disclosure for pollution abatement: African decision-makers in a PROPER public good experimentA linear public good experiment has been employed to investigate strategic behaviour in pollution abatement among African climate decision-makers...
Group decision making Hazardous wastes Natural disastersWorking Paper
Cost and Impact Analysis of Sea Level Rise on Coastal VietnamThe Development under Climate Change research effort provides a basis for determining quantitative impacts on infrastructure from climate change. This paper provides results of an analysis of sea level rise impacts on road infrastructure in Vietnam...
Environment Natural disasters Climate changeResearch Brief
Aid Failures in Haiti: Exploring the Fatal FlawAid to Haiti has not been effective due to failure of the country’s political and economic elites to participate and assist in the development process...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Natural disastersWorking Paper
Environmental and Climate Finance in a New World: How Past Environmental Aid Allocation Impacts Future Climate AidIn this paper we update previous work that categorizes foreign aid projects in terms of their likely impact on the natural environment...
Climate change Cost effectiveness Economic assistance and foreign aidWorking Paper
Foreign Aid and the Failure of State Building in Haiti Under the Duvaliers, Aristide, Préval, and MartellyAfter receiving at least US$20 billion in aid for reconstruction and development over the past 60 years, Haiti has been and remains a fragile state, one of the worse globally...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Elite (Social sciences) Government accountabilityWorking Paper
Assessing the Risk of Cyclone-Induced Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise in MozambiqueThis article considers the impact of sea level rise and storm surge on the port cities of Maputo and Beira in Mozambique...
Climate change Econometric models (Economic development) Macroeconomics