This paper aims to estimate the global aggregate of disaster impacts during 1960 to 2007 using Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) methodology. The authors selected 184 major disasters in terms of the size of economic damages, based on the data available from the International Emergency Disasters and MunichRe (NatCat) databases for natural catastrophes. They estimate the losses and total impacts including the higher-order effects of these disasters using...
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2009/06/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS4963
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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Impact estimation of disasters : a global aggregate for 1960 to 2007
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centre for research on the epidemiology