Aid, Natural Disasters and the Samaritan’s Dilemma

This paper discusses the impact of foreign aid on the recipient country's preparedness against natural disasters. The theoretical model shows that foreign aid can have two opposing effects on a country's level of mitigating activities. In order to test the theoretical propositions, the authors analyze the effect of foreign aid dependence on ex-ante risk-management activity proxied by the death toll from major storms, floods and earthquakes occurring worldwide between 1980 and 2002. They find evidence that the crowding-out effect of foreign aid outweighs the preventive effect in the case of storms, while there is mixed evidence in the case of floods and earthquakes.

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Main Authors: Raschky, Paul A., Schwindt, Manijeh
Format: Policy Research Working Paper biblioteca
Language:English
Published: 2009-06-01
Subjects:AID FLOWS, BILATERAL AID, BUILDING CODES, CATASTROPHIC EVENTS, CITIZENS, CONFLICT, CONFLICT RESOLUTION, CRED, DEATH TOLL, DEATH TOLLS, DECLARATION, DEMOCRACY, DEPENDENCE, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPMENT AID, DEVELOPMENT NETWORK, DISASTER, DISASTER AID, DISASTER ASSISTANCE, DISASTER EVENTS, DISASTER INSURANCE, DISASTER MANAGEMENT, DISASTER PREPAREDNESS, DISASTER REDUCTION, DISASTER RELIEF, DISASTER RISK, DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, DISASTER SITUATION, DISASTER TYPE, DISASTER VICTIMS, DONOR COUNTRIES, DONOR COUNTRY, DROUGHTS, EARLY WARNING, EARLY WARNING SYSTEM, EARTHQUAKE, EARTHQUAKES, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS, EPIDEMIOLOGY, EVACUATION, EXPLOITATION, FATALITIES, FINANCIAL SUPPORT, FLOOD, FLOOD INSURANCE, FLOOD VICTIMS, FLOODED, FLOODS, FOREIGN AID, FRONTIERS, HUMAN BEINGS, HUMANITARIAN AID, HURRICANE, IMPACT OF DISASTERS, INCOME INEQUALITY, INSURANCE, INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES, INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE, INTERNATIONAL BANK, INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, INTERNATIONAL LEVEL, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, INTERNATIONAL TRADE, LACK OF INFORMATION, LAM, LANDSLIDES, LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT, MORTALITY, MORTALITY RISK, NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS, NATIONAL LEVEL, NATIONS, NATURAL DISASTER, NATURAL DISASTERS, NATURAL GAS, NATURAL HAZARD, NATURAL HAZARDS, NUMBER OF DEATHS, NUMBER OF PEOPLE, OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE, OPEN SOCIETY, POLICE, POLICY FORMULATION, POLICY RESEARCH, POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER, POLITICAL POWER, POPULATION DENSITY, PREDICTABILITY, PREVENTIVE ACTION, PROGRESS, PROPERTY RIGHTS, PUBLIC SERVICES, RECIPIENT COUNTRIES, RECIPIENT COUNTRY, RECONSTRUCTION, RICHER COUNTRIES, RISK ANALYSIS, RULE OF LAW, SAVINGS, SOCIAL SECTOR, STORM, STORMS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, TERRORISM, TERRORIST, TYPE OF DISASTERS, VIOLENCE, VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS, VULNERABILITY, WAR, WIND SPEED, WORLD DEVELOPMENT,
Online Access:http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20090603154059
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4144
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