Information/communication technology and natural disaster vulnerability

Hideki Toya () and Mark Skidmore

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 137, issue C, 143-145

Abstract: Over the last several decades the world has experienced a revolution in information and communication technologies (ICT). Improved communications has transformed societies, and as we show in this study, has also served to reduce natural disaster vulnerability. Using cross-country data over the 1980–2013 period to estimate the relationship between ICT and disaster fatalities, our estimates indicate that as ICT access improves countries experience fewer disaster-induced fatalities.

Keywords: Economic development; Natural disasters; Information/communication technology; Vulnerability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 O3 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.10.018

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