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Natural disaster death and socio-economic factors in selected Asian countries: a panel analysis


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Padli, Jaharudin and Habibullah, Muzafar Shah (2009) Natural disaster death and socio-economic factors in selected Asian countries: a panel analysis. Asian Social Science, 5 (4). pp. 65-71. ISSN 1911-2017; ESSN: 1911-2025

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between disaster fatalities with the level of economic development, years of schooling, land area and population for a panel of fifteen Asian countries over the sample period over 1970 to 2005. Our results indicates that the relationship between disaster losses and the level of economic development is nonlinear in nature suggesting that at lower income level, a country is more disaster resilience but at higher income level, an economy become less disaster resistant. Other disaster determinants of interest is the level of education which suggests that educational attainment reduces human fatalities as a result of disaster; larger population will increase death toll and larger land area will reduce disaster fatalities.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Economics and Management
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v5n4p65
Publisher: Canadian Center of Science and Education
Keywords: Natural disaster; Asian; Panel data analysis
Depositing User: Emelda Mohd Hamid
Date Deposited: 18 Oct 2013 03:10
Last Modified: 23 Oct 2017 03:23
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15779
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