We empirically investigate the effect of climate-induced natural disasters on the quality of
institutions in 92 countries using data from 1984 to 2016. An instrumental variable approach …

In this study, we assess the impact of quality infrastructure, development, and corruption on
damage caused by a natural disaster using panel data from 14 Asia and the Pacific …

Climate change poses a great challenge for democracy, and its endurance—probably the
greatest challenge it has ever seen. If greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced and …

Disasters and disaster risks may induce corruption in a country, aggravating the number of
deaths and damages while reducing a country's adaptive capacity. Within this framework …

Abstract Firms in many South Asian countries are not only directly affected by natural
disasters, but also indirectly affected by natural disaster-induced corruption of public …

Although different social crises may eventually favor undemocratic and authoritarian forms of
governance, at some point, such antidemocratic practices require the support of a significant …

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the level of democracy and fiscal-
policy response to the economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. We use a novel …

Natural disasters are challenges for good governance. That conclusion follows from recent
research investigating the effects of natural disasters on one important force hostile to good …

In Geography and the Wealth of Nations, Sherif Khalifa argues that geography influences
the factors that determine economic performance, such as the quality of institutions, the …

A review of the academic literature on the topic has proved that most studies have been
focused on how to finance the risk and indemnify the damages caused by an earthquake …