A House of One’s Own: The Moral Economy of Post-Disaster Aid in El Salvador by Alicia Sliwinski

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 294-296
Author(s):  
Julie Cupples
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Disaster Aid ◽  
Post Disaster

scholarly journals Effects of Post-Disaster Aid Measures to Firms: Evidence from Tohoku University Earthquake Recovery Firm Survey 2012–2015

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 1030-1046
Author(s):  
Yuzuru Isoda ◽  
Satoru Masuda ◽  
Shin-Ichi Nishiyama ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Disaster Aid ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Post Disaster ◽  
Firm Survey

Panel data of individual firms are a valuable source of information on the disaster resilience of the regional economy. Such data also helps to assess the effectiveness of government aids to recovery. Every year after the Great East Japan Earthquake 2011, from 2012 to 2015, Tohoku University’s Graduate School of Economics and Management conducted the Tohoku University Earthquake Recovery Firm Survey (TERFS) to obtain such information. The survey collected 25,826 responses over the 4-year period from a total of 11,090 firms in the east Tohoku region, the most severely affected region. Based on this survey, this paper assesses the effects of the conventional and new government recovery aid measures introduced to help firms affected by the disaster on the levels of business activity. The paper finds that group subsidy and debt reduction had important roles in the recovery of business activities, and demonstrates the importance of a panel survey in understanding and guiding policies for the resilience of the regional economy.

scholarly journals Vivienda y ayuda humanitaria. Los antecedentes de las acciones frente a los desastres

Revista Trace ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Joël Audefroy
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Nous Pouvons ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
Post Disaster ◽  
Participation Sociale ◽  
Sobre Todo

La ayuda humanitaria llevada a cabo después de los desastres no es un fenómeno reciente. Si bien las acciones de las grandes agencias humanitarias internacionales son conocidas, tales como las de la Cruz Roja Internacional, OXFAM y CARITAS Internacional entre otras, lo que es menos conocido, es el origen de las propuestas de los arquitectos sobre el tema del hábitat de emergencia y la reconstrucción. De hecho, si revisamos el tema con un corte histórico, observamos que las propuestas han estado bastante ligadas a corrientes y movimientos de la arquitectura sobre todo a partir del siglo XX. Este trabajo presenta los antecedentes de la participación de los arquitectos en el diseño de propuestas para emergencia y reconstrucción después de desastres y presenta algunas experiencias recientes en la región mesoamericana en Guatemala, El Salvador y México. Este trabajo muestra que las propuestas de reconstrucción de tipo participativo y utilizando procesos de ayuda mutua han sido mucho más exitosas que las experiencias masivas promovidas verticalmente por los gobiernos sin ninguna participación social.Abstract: The post-disaster humanitarian aid is not a new phenomenon. Although the actions of the great international humanitarian agencies are known, such as those of the International Red Cross, OXFAM and CARITAS International among others, which is less well-known, is the origin of the proposals of the architects on emergency shelter and reconstruction issues. In fact, if we review the subject from a historical cut, we may observe that the proposals have been linked to current movements of XXth century architecture mainly. This approach focuses on the antecedents of the architect’s participation in the design of proposals for post-disasters emergency and reconstruction and presents some recent experiences in the Mesoamerican region in Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico. This paper suggests that the participating and mutual aid reconstruction processes has been much more successful than massive and vertical experiences promoted by governments without any social participation.Résumé : L’aide humanitaire fournie après les désastres n’est pas un phénomène récent. Si sont bien connues les actions des grandes agences humanitaires internationales telles que la Croix Rouge internationale, OXFAM et CARITAS International, entre autres, ce qui est moins connu, c’est l’origine des propositions des architectes sur les thèmes de l’habitat d’urgence et la reconstruction. En fait, si nous révisons le sujet dans une perspective historique, nous pouvons observer que les propositions ont été très liées aux mouvements de l’architecture surtout à partir du XXe siècle. Ce travail présente les antécédents de la participation des architectes dans la conception de propositions pour l’habitat d’urgence et la reconstruction après les désastres et montre quelques exemples récents dans la région mésoaméricaine au Guatemala, au Salvador et au Mexique. Ce travail montre que les propositions de reconstruction participatives et d’aide mutuelle ont été beaucoup plus satisfaisantes que les expériences massives et verticales des gouvernements réalisées sans aucune participation sociale.

Where is the money? Post-disaster foreign aid flows

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 561-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Becerra ◽  
Eduardo Cavallo ◽  
Ilan Noy
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Development Assistance Committee ◽  
Bilateral Aid ◽  
The Past ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Disaster Aid ◽  
Post Disaster

AbstractThis paper describes the flows of aid after large catastrophic natural disasters by using the extensive record of bilateral aid flows, by aid sector, available through the OECD's Development Assistance Committee. For each large donor, the extent of cross-sector reallocation is identified that is occurring in the aftermath of large disasters whereby humanitarian aid increases but other types of aid may decrease. The evidence in this paper suggests that the expectation of large surges in post-disaster aid flows is not warranted given the past diversity of experience of global foreign post-disaster aid by donor and by event. No evidence is found, however, that donors reallocate aid between recipient countries (cross-recipient reallocation). These observations suggest that countries which are predicted to face increasing losses from natural disasters in the coming decades (and almost all are) should be devoting significant resources to prevention, insurance and mitigation, rather than expecting significant post-disaster aid inflows.

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