Economic impact of natural disasters, spillovers, and role of human development: case of Indonesia

Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences - Tập 15 - Trang 493-506 - 2022
Esa Azali Asyahid1, Immanuel Satya Pekerti1
1Department of Economics, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Tóm tắt

We investigate how natural disaster damages affect regional economic growth and their spatial spillover effect in various human development (HDI) level settings by utilising a panel annual district-level dataset from Indonesia. We employ Spatial Durbin Model to achieve these objectives. We find that disaster damage to houses has a negative effect on district-level per capita output growth. Meanwhile, the effect of disaster damage to people on economic growth depends on their HDI level, with low-HDI districts affected negatively and high-HDI districts positively. Our analysis also finds spatial spillover effects on neighbouring regions’ growth, and heterogeneous effects across economic sectors.

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