Poverty Impacts of the Pakistan Flood 2022

Erwin Knippenberg (), Mattia Amadio () and Moritz Meyer ()
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Erwin Knippenberg: The World Bank Group, Poverty and Equity Global Practice
Mattia Amadio: The World Bank Group, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
Moritz Meyer: The World Bank Group, Poverty and Equity Global Practice

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, 2024, vol. 8, issue 3, No 4, 453-471

Abstract: Abstract In the summer of 2022, devastating floods hit Pakistan with a profound negative impact on lives and livelihoods. Apart from the irreconcilable loss of life, household welfare was negatively impacted through the loss of household income, loss of assets, and rising food prices. Yet, in the absence of just-in-time household survey data, evaluating the welfare impact is challenging, particularly in terms of estimating monetary poverty. This paper demonstrates how real-time satellite data, in combination with administrative data and historical household survey data, can be used to model the impact of floods on Pakistani households. In the context of data and time constraints, we present a practical methodology to simulate the expected impact of a natural disaster on monetary poverty from an ex-ante perspective. Estimates show that, as a direct consequence of the floods, the national poverty rate would increase by 4.0 to 4.3 percentage points, pushing around 9 million people below the national poverty line. Moreover, a spatially disaggregated analysis showed that the magnitude of shocks varied across locations and households depending on the intensity of the flooding and household characteristics. These estimates, which informed the Post Disaster Needs Assessment and were later used to frame the Donor Conference for Pakistan, provide an example of rapid modeling in the absence of real-time household survey data.

Keywords: Poverty and inequality; Natural disasters; Climate change; South asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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