Natural Disasters, Human Development and Poverty at the Municipal Level in Mexico

By Eduardo Rodríguez-Oreggia, Alejandro de la Fuente, R. de la Torre, Héctor Moreno. 2012

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Abstract This article analyses the effects of natural disasters on human development and poverty levels at the municipal level in Mexico. Using several sources, we build a panel of data in order to uncover if different natural shocks can affect social indicators. After controlling for geographic and natural characteristics which can make municipalities more hazard prone, as well as for other institutional, socio-economic and demographic pre-shock characteristics, in addition to using fixed effects, we find that general shocks, especially from floods and droughts, lead to significant drops in both types of indicator.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. Stéphane Hallegatte
2. Edward B. Barbier
3. Stephen Polasky
4. Kathleen Segerson
5. Aaron M. Ellison
6. Rafael Reuveny
7. Chang Hoon Oh

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Edward B. Barbier
2. Maria Fay
3. Stéphane Hallegatte
4. Adel Ben Youssef
5. C. Nguyen
6. Mohamed Arouri
7. Joost R. Santos
8. Elco E. Koks

In Soil Science

1. Edward B. Barbier
2. Maria Fay
3. Stéphane Hallegatte
4. Adel Ben Youssef
5. C. Nguyen
6. Mohamed Arouri

Citations in the corpus

• Natural Disasters, Household Welfare, and Resilience: Evidence from Rural Vietnam (2015, background): “Recently, Rodriguez-Oreggia et al. (2012) find the adverse effect of natural disasters, especially flood and droughts, on human development and poverty in Mexico.”
• Poverty and climate change: introduction (2018, background): “For example, at the municipal level inMexico, Rodriguez-Oreggia et al. (2013) find that floods and droughts increased poverty between 1.5–3.7 per cent from 2000 and 2005.”