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Safety Nets and Natural Disaster Mitigation : Evidence from Cyclone Phailin in Odisha / Christian, Paul.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications")- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Christian, Paul.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climate and Meteorology.
- Climate Change.
- Climate Change and Environment.
- Climate Change and Health.
- Climate Change Mitigation.
- Environment.
- Extreme Weather.
- Health Care Services Industry.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Industry.
- Inequality.
- Labor Markets.
- Natural Disasters.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Rural Livelihood.
- Safety Nets.
- Science and Technology Development.
- Science of Climate Change.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Local Subjects:
- Climate and Meteorology.
- Climate Change.
- Climate Change and Environment.
- Climate Change and Health.
- Climate Change Mitigation.
- Environment.
- Extreme Weather.
- Health Care Services Industry.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Industry.
- Inequality.
- Labor Markets.
- Natural Disasters.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Rural Livelihood.
- Safety Nets.
- Science and Technology Development.
- Science of Climate Change.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (32 pages)
- Other Title:
- Safety Nets and Natural Disaster Mitigation
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2018.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- To what degree can vulnerability to extreme weather events be mitigated by access to a rural livelihoods program, particularly with regard to the impacts on women? This paper addresses this question through a natural experiment arising from two independent but overlapping sources of variation: exposure to a devastating cyclone that occurred in the Bay of Bengal region of India and the staggered rollout of a rural livelihoods intervention. Comparisons from household surveys across communities more or less exposed to the storm before and after the introduction of the program reveal that the storm led to significant reductions in overall household expenditure, and that these reductions were indeed the largest for women, adding to the emerging evidence for the frequently-posed hypothesis that women bear the brunt of the effects of disasters on overall household consumption. Participation in the livelihoods program mitigated some of the reductions in household nonfood expenditure and women's consumption, but not on food expenditure. These results from a densely populated region whose topography makes it particularly vulnerable to storms can inform future policy approaches and aid in modeling the impact of these policies on the effects of climate change.
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