Data and Code for: Story of the hurricane: Government, NGOs, and the difference in disaster relief targeting
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Evan Kresch, Oberlin College; Benjamin Fitch-Fleishmann, NorthWestern Energy
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Project Citation:
Kresch, Evan, and Fitch-Fleishmann, Benjamin. Data and Code for: Story of the hurricane: Government, NGOs, and the difference in disaster relief targeting. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-06-29. https://doi.org/10.3886/E143901V1
Project Description
Summary:
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After catastrophes, international donors offering assistance must decide whether to channel resources via the local government or non-governmental organizations (NGOs). We examine how these channels differ in targeting aid by combining survey data on aid received by Nicaraguan households before and after Hurricane Mitch. In the short term, NGOs provided aid according to hurricane severity, while government aid allocations were not significantly higher in the hardest hit areas. However, government-provided aid matched that of NGOs several years later. Despite the lag in government aid, we do not find evidence of political manipulation of relief aid in either the short or long-term.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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disaster relief;
ngo;
development;
nicaragua;
hurricanes
Geographic Coverage:
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Nicaragua
Time Period(s):
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1998 – 2005
Data Type(s):
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administrative records data;
census/enumeration data;
geographic information system (GIS) data
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