TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - How do natural disasters influence the rate of poverty? JO - Journal of poverty A1 - Lee, Chin-Yu A1 - Tang, Chor Foon SP - 478 EP - 486 VL - 23 IS - 6 N2 - This study aims to investigate the causal relationship between poverty, growth, financial development, and natural disasters in the Philippines from 1970 to 2014. The Toda-Yamamoto version of the Granger causality test was employed. We find that financial development, poverty, and economic growth were bidirectionally causal. However, we noted a unidirectional Granger causality from natural disasters to financial development and economic growth. In this regard, effective disaster risk-reduction strategies and risk management practices are proposed to mitigate the influence of natural disasters on the rate of poverty and thus promote sustainable economic growth and financial development in the Philippines.

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LA - en SN - 1087-5549 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2019.1616033 ID - ref1 ER -