Media, Demonstrations, and Public Good Delivery: Evidence from World Bank Projects during Natural Disasters
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Keywords
Disaster aid; government policy; media; natural disasters;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H84 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - Disaster Aid
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- L82 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Entertainment; Media
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CUL-2016-08-14 (Cultural Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2016-08-14 (Development)
- NEP-PPM-2016-08-14 (Project, Program and Portfolio Management)
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