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Natural Disasters and Growth: Going Beyond the Averages

2012-07-01

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Despite the tremendous human suffering caused by natural disasters, their effects on economic growth remain unclear, with some studies reporting negative, and others indicating no or even positive effects. To reconcile these seemingly contradictory findings reported in the literature, this study explores the effects of natural disasters on growth separately by disaster and economic sector. Applying a dynamic gener...

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Literature Corpus work: 55740a30-33d4-50f7-9e80-43c1c1b84308
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.03.002

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