Natural Disaster Impacts and Fiscal Decentralization

Mark Skidmore and Hideki Toya ()

Land Economics, 2013, vol. 89, issue 1, 101-117

Abstract: In recent years, many developing countries have sought to implement more decentralized governmental systems. Despite efforts toward fiscal federalism, assessment of decentralization activity has been hampered by lack of consistent cross-country measures of effectiveness. Since governments play a central role in the management of catastrophic events, disaster impact data provide an opportunity to evaluate whether government structure is important in limiting disaster losses. We use cross-country data over the 1970–2005 period to estimate the relationship between decentralization and disaster casualties; countries with more decentralized governments experience fewer disaster-induced fatalities.

JEL-codes: H73 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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