Description: Aid, Natural Disasters and the Samaritan’s Dilemma

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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...

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Main Authors:	Raschky, Paul A., Schwindt, Manijeh
Language:	English
Published:	2012
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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Summary:	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.