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Title
How is disaster aid allocated within poor villages?
Creator
Creator Name
Takasaki, Yoshito Takasaki, Yoshito
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
University of Tsukuba
Key Word
disaster aid
informal risk sharing
social hierarchy
targeting
Fiji
JEL
O17
I38
Q18
Q54
Abstract
How disaster aid is allocated within poor villages is little understood. This paper examines risk-sharing institutions and social hierarchies as village self-allocation mechanisms. Original survey data from Fiji contain rich information about cyclone damage, traditional kin status, and aid allocations over post-disaster phases, at both household and kin-group levels. The paper shows under what conditions the performance of targeting aid to victims can significantly differ from overall risk-sharing outcomes determined by private transfers and aid (i.e., targeting gap). Elite domination in aid allocation can occur not only for given damage, but also in targeting on damage (i.e., targeting bias).
Publisher
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Issued Date
2012-03
Language
English(eng)
Resource Type
technical report
Version Type
VoR
Is Part OfRelation -
Related Title
PRIMCED Discussion Paper Series ; No. 25
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Related Identifier
URI
  http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/primced/e-index.html
Number of Pages
27
Sponsorship
基盤研究(S) = Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)
Appears in Collections
PRIMCED Discussion Paper Series
URL
https://hdl.handle.net/10086/22935