The Asian Tsunami and Post-Disaster Aid: Critical Perspectives

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Sunita Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Aid ◽  
Post Disaster ◽  
Critical Perspectives

scholarly journals Effects of Post-Disaster Aid Measures to Firms: Evidence from Tohoku University Earthquake Recovery Firm Survey 2012–2015

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 1030-1046
Author(s):  
Yuzuru Isoda ◽  
Satoru Masuda ◽  
Shin-Ichi Nishiyama ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Disaster Aid ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Post Disaster ◽  
Firm Survey

Panel data of individual firms are a valuable source of information on the disaster resilience of the regional economy. Such data also helps to assess the effectiveness of government aids to recovery. Every year after the Great East Japan Earthquake 2011, from 2012 to 2015, Tohoku University’s Graduate School of Economics and Management conducted the Tohoku University Earthquake Recovery Firm Survey (TERFS) to obtain such information. The survey collected 25,826 responses over the 4-year period from a total of 11,090 firms in the east Tohoku region, the most severely affected region. Based on this survey, this paper assesses the effects of the conventional and new government recovery aid measures introduced to help firms affected by the disaster on the levels of business activity. The paper finds that group subsidy and debt reduction had important roles in the recovery of business activities, and demonstrates the importance of a panel survey in understanding and guiding policies for the resilience of the regional economy.

Where is the money? Post-disaster foreign aid flows

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 561-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Becerra ◽  
Eduardo Cavallo ◽  
Ilan Noy
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Development Assistance Committee ◽  
Bilateral Aid ◽  
The Past ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Disaster Aid ◽  
Post Disaster

AbstractThis paper describes the flows of aid after large catastrophic natural disasters by using the extensive record of bilateral aid flows, by aid sector, available through the OECD's Development Assistance Committee. For each large donor, the extent of cross-sector reallocation is identified that is occurring in the aftermath of large disasters whereby humanitarian aid increases but other types of aid may decrease. The evidence in this paper suggests that the expectation of large surges in post-disaster aid flows is not warranted given the past diversity of experience of global foreign post-disaster aid by donor and by event. No evidence is found, however, that donors reallocate aid between recipient countries (cross-recipient reallocation). These observations suggest that countries which are predicted to face increasing losses from natural disasters in the coming decades (and almost all are) should be devoting significant resources to prevention, insurance and mitigation, rather than expecting significant post-disaster aid inflows.

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