Role of income and government responsiveness in reducing the death toll from floods in Indian states.

ABSTRACT: Floods are the most commonly occurring natural disasters in India due to India's unique geographical location and socioeconomic conditions. Frequent flooding causes enormous loss of human lives and damage crops and public utilities. Furthermore, floods adversely affect economic development and increase the government's financial burden by increasing spending on various disaster mitigation measures. Recent empirical literature based on cross-national comparisons shows that disaster fatalities and damages are monotonically decreasing in per capita income. We challenge this view on the monotonic negative relationship between income and flood damages. We examine the non-monotonic (inverted U-shaped) relationship between per capita income and flood impact in terms of deaths, people affected, an

SUBMITTER: Parida Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9551081 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature