Aid, natural disasters and the samaritan's dilemma

Paul Raschky and Manijeh Schwindt ()

No 4952, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Natural Disasters; Hazard Risk Management; Disaster Management; Population Policies; Post Conflict Reconstruction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-06-01
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