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Uninsured natural disasters can have devastating effects on human welfare and economic growth, particularly in developing countries where large segments of the population are in poverty and government resources and capacity to assist in relief, recovery, and reconstruction are limited. Therefore there is interest in exploring how these countries can design and implement disaster relief financing and insurance programs. This paper discusses four aspects of the microeconomics of disaster relief financing and insurance programs that are important for the ex post impact evaluation of such programs: (1) use of game setups to analyze the private willingness-to-pay for disaster protection through risk transfer or risk retention instruments; (2) use of ex post analysis of existing disaster relief financing and insurance schemes (such as Mexico's programs) to analyze the willingness to provide political support to such schemes; (3) use of ex post analysis of existing schemes to analyze not only ex post coping with shock, but also the ex ante risk management impact of disaster relief financing and insurance schemes, with the expectation that the latter can have a large effects on growth; and (4) use of mainly global data to do ex post impact analysis of natural disasters and the resilience-enhancing value of disaster relief financing and insurance schemes (examples exist for the disaster-impact relationship that can be extended to the role of disaster relief financing and insurance in risk reduction, coping with shock, and risk management). The paper proposes concrete research projects to pursue the analysis of these four dimensions of micro-level impacts of disaster relief financing and insurance.

Environment --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Social Protections and Labor --- Urban Development

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Agricultural price supports --- Agricultural prices --- Income distribution

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This second edition of Development Economics: Theory and Practice continues to provide students and practitioners with the perspectives and tools they need to think analytically and critically about the current major economic development issues in the world.Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet identify seven key dimensions of development—growth, poverty, vulnerability, inequality, basic needs, sustainability, and quality of life—and use them to structure the contents of the text. The book gives a historical perspective on the evolution of thought in development. It uses theory and empirical analysis to present readers with a full picture of how development works, how its successes and failures can be assessed, and how alternatives can be introduced. The authors demonstrate how diagnostics, design of programs and policies, and impact evaluation can be used to seek new solutions to the suffering and violence caused by development failures.In the second edition, more attention has been given to ongoing developments, such as:pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goalscontinuously rising global and national inequalityhealth as a domestic and international public goodcash transfers for social protectioncarbon trading for sustainabilityThis text is fully engaged with the most cutting-edge research in the field and equips readers with analytical tools for impact evaluation of development programs and policies, illustrated with numerous examples. It is underpinned throughout by a wealth of student-friendly features, including case studies, quantitative problem sets, end-of-chapter questions, and extensive references. Excel and Stata exercises are available as digital supplements for students and instructors.This unique text is ideal for those taking courses in development economics, economic growth, and development policy, and will provide an excellent foundation for those wishing to pursue careers in development.

Development economics. --- Economic development. --- Économie du développement. --- Développement économique. --- economic development. --- Economic policy. --- Social policy. --- Developing countries --- Developing countries.

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Chapter dedicated to the history of development economics thought, which is integral to a student fully understanding the evolution of development economics (and which is absent from most other texts) // Authored by two of the biggest names in development economics globally. // Includes extensive discussions on data and studies using the randomized control trial approach, which is widely used in development research nowadays // Each chapter contains "take-home messages"; boxes; "concepts seen in this chapter"; review questions and a reference list // Companion website with policy briefs, extra study questions, further reading suggestions, Excel exercises and Stata exercises

Economics --- Business & Economics --- Economic policy --- Developing countries --- Economic development --- Business & economics --- Political science --- Social science