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dc.titleIs Disaster Risk Reduction Spending Driven by the Occurrence of Natural Disasters? Evidence from Peru
dc.contributor.authorVela, Mauricio A.
dc.contributor.authorMiller, Sebastián J.
dc.contributor.orgunitDepartment of Research and Chief Economist
dc.coveragePeru
dc.date.available2014-04-17T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2014-04-10T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractThis paper studies the allocation of total disaster risk reduction public spending among regions in Peru. The main objective of this work is to identify the main determinants of the distribution of these resources, and for this purpose an index of historical physical impacts of natural disasters, social vulnerability, and institutional capacity was created. It is found that historical impacts of climatological disasters are positively correlated with the per capita amount received by region in order to prevent future natural disasters. Impacts of geological disaster, on the other hand, affect the amount of executed and budgeted resources used to cope with the effects of past disasters. The prevention expenditure is mainly driven by climatological effects on the agriculture sector. Additionally, results confirm that higher social vulnerability is a main determinant of the distribution of prevention spending but conditioned on being affected by climatological disasters. Institutional capacity seems to define only the amount of recovery expenditure, positively for regions more seriously affected by geological disasters and negatively for regions devastated by climatological disasters.
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dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011629
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Is-Disaster-Risk-Reduction-Spending-Driven-by-the-Occurrence-of-Natural-Disasters-Evidence-from-Peru.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectPublic Expenditure
dc.subjectDisaster
dc.subjectClimate Change
dc.subjectPollution
dc.subjectDrinking Water Supply
dc.subjectEnvironmental Management
dc.subjectRisk Management
dc.subject.jelcodeH76 - State and Local Government: Other Expenditure Categories
dc.subject.jelcodeH84 - Disaster Aid
dc.subject.jelcodeQ54 - Climate • Natural Disasters and Their Management • Global Warming
dc.subject.jelcodeQ56 - Environment and Development • Environment and Trade • Sustainability • Environmental Accounts and Accounting • Environmental Equity • Population Growth
dc.subject.jelcodeR58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
dc.subject.keywordsClimatological disasters;Institutional capacity;Social vulnerability;IDB-WP-500;Recovery expenditure;Natural disasters;Prevention expenditure;Recovery expenditures
dc.typeWorking Papers
idb.identifier.pubnumberWorking Papers
idb.operationRG-K1219
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