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| Title: | THE IMPACT OF NATURAL DISASTERS ON ECONOMIC GROWTH: A STUDY OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA |
| Authors: | Garcia, Sharon Louise |
| Keywords: | Natural Disasters
Economic Growth
Developing Countries |
| Date Created: | 2002 |
| Publisher: | University of Kentucky |
| Abstract: | Natural disasters have potentially large economic impacts on developing nations. There
is a small, but growing literature analyzing these impacts on variables such as gross domestic
product. In this study Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and
Nicaragua are studied to measure the impact that disasters have had on economic growth over
the past twenty-nine years (1970-1998). The development indicator, gross domestic product
(GDP) growth rate, will be measured over the twenty-nine year study period and analyzed with
respect to correlation with natural disasters. Regression analysis is used to investigate the
relationship between natural disasters and economic growth.
It is hypothesized that the number of natural disasters that a country faces has a negative
impact on economic growth rate as measured by GDP. As the quantity of disasters experienced
in any given year increases the overall disruption of the economy is predicted to be greater, thus
leading to lower levels of economic growth in the short term. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10225/57 |
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