Natural disasters and economic growth in Northeast Brazil: evidence from municipal economies of the Ceará State

De Oliveira Silva, Victor Hugo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4737-7062 (2019) Natural disasters and economic growth in Northeast Brazil: evidence from municipal economies of the Ceará State. Environment and Development Economics, 24. 271–293. ISSN 1355-770X

Preview

PDF (Accepted manuscript) - Accepted Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives. Download (992kB) | Preview

Abstract

Based on an unexplored data set on disasters in Brazil, the current study shows that the direct damage of natural disasters reduces the GDP growth rate of municipal economies in Ceará state, Northeast Brazil. The agriculture and service sectors are the most affected economic sectors, while the industrial sector remains unaffected by environmental shocks. Economic growth is particularly responsive to the occurrence of large natural disasters that lead municipalities to declare a state of emergency or public calamity. Regarding public policies, water supply infrastructure increases the resilience of the output growth of services to droughts, whereas disaster microinsurance helps to mitigate the effects of droughts and floods on the economic growth of agriculture in a Brazilian state where family farming is predominant and highly vulnerable to natural disasters.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 8 - decent work and economic growth,sdg 11 - sustainable cities and communities ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/decent_work_and_economic_growth
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	26 Jan 2022 13:30
Last Modified:	20 Aug 2023 01:27
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/83160
DOI:	10.1017/s1355770x18000517

Downloads

Actions (login required)

View Item