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    After the Storm
    (2012-04-13) Fang, Danjie
    Empirical research on the impact of natural disasters on economic growth has provided contradictory results and few studies have focused on the United States. In this thesis, I bridge the gap by examining the merits of existing claims on the relationship between natural disasters and growth at the states and county level in the U.S. I find that climatological and geophysical disasters have a small and negative impact on growth rates at the state level, but that this impact disappears over time. At the county level, I find that tornados have a slight but negative impact on per capita GDP levels and growth rates over a five year period across three states that experience this natural phenomenon. Controlling for FEMA aid, I find that there may be upward omitted variable bias in regressions that do not include the amount of aid as a variable. I find evidence that FEMA aid has a small but positive impact on growth and per capita GDP levels at both the county and state level.
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    China’s Aid and People’s Perception of Inequality in South Africa
    (2024) Fu, Zhishuo

    This paper is focusing on the relationship between China’s aid to South Africa and people’s perception of inequality in recipient areas, and its mechanism. South Africa is African’s largest economy and second largest China’s aid recipient. However, in the meantime, South Africa is a country with high inequality and a large amount of people are living under the poverty line. This paper is focusing on subjective inequality. This paper proposes that China’s aid can reduce people’s perception of inequality by promoting employment therefore increases people’s prospect of upward mobility. AidData’s China’s aid dataset and South Africa Social Attitude Survey are used to test this theory. The result is that China’s aid decreases perception of inequality in recipient areas, however, the result varies among ethnic groups. To avoid endogenous, this paper also uses China’s steel production as an instrument variable. This paper also uses different measurement of aid, different methods, different attitudes and different instruments to test the robustness. The result is robust. However, the effect of mechanism—employment is weak.

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    The divergent paths of post-quake Nepal and Haiti – The Hierarchical System for Emergency Mitigation as a determinant for emergency humanitarian aid coordination
    (2018-03-26) Keefe, Caroline
    Natural disasters have always been extremely disruptive events, destroying thousands of lives and homes without warning, killing hundreds, and threatening to plunge into disarray entire societies unprepared to deal with the disaster. Since the early 2000s, scholars have been creating several models that have been determined to be appropriate systems of preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters, particularly natural disasters. One of the most well-known models is the Hierarchical System for Emergency Mitigation, or the HSEM model. It is considered one of the most adaptable and logical models for disaster management. Using the HSEM model, this paper will compare the preparation for, response to, and recovery from the earthquake in Haiti of 2010 with the earthquake in Nepal of 2015, focusing on the efforts of the Red Cross and USAID.
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    What We Owe the Global Poor: In Defense of a Moderate Principle of Sacrifice
    (2012) Robson, Gregory J.

    Peter Singer's 1971 essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" sparked a surge in interest among philosophers in the beneficent obligations of the global rich to assist the global poor. Richard Miller, a prominent recent critic of Singer, has argued that Singer's position is too demanding and proposed the Principle of Sympathy as an alternative to Singer's Principle of Sacrifice. I argue against Miller's view and highlight problematic features of his "daughter's aesthetic sense" example and his "closeness-to-heart" criterion. After critically examining Miller's and Singer's alternative accounts, I argue for a substantially revised version of Singer's position. The Moderate Principle of Sacrifice (MPS) that I propose includes four revisions to Singer's account. These revisions allow it more plausibly to capture our beneficent obligations to assist the global poor.