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Understanding the Determinants of Livelihood Recovery After a Large Earthquake

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This chapter is an attempt to understand the determinants of livelihood recovery after a natural disaster by reviewing literature in this subject and conducting an empirical exercise. A panel firm level survey was conducted of 500 mostly small and micro enterprises in Bantul district after the 27 May 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake caused the death of more than 5.7 thousand people, injured more than 60 thousand people and destroyed the houses of hundreds of thousands. This survey provided the main data set for the empirical exercise. Bantul district was the one most severely affected by the earthquake. This chapter argues that (1) smaller enterprises are more resilient and so are able to recover faster and (2) an industrial cluster system within a sub district does provide the necessary support for firms to recover. However, there is no evidence that receiving aid induces a faster recovery rate.

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    Note these enterprises might have experienced some damage to the building etc., but not so that their sales were affected.

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  1. Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

    Catur Sugiyanto

  2. Arndt-Corden Division of Economics, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Budy P. Resosudarmo

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Sugiyanto, C., Resosudarmo, B.P. (2011). Understanding the Determinants of Livelihood Recovery After a Large Earthquake. In: Guo, R., Freeman, C. (eds) Managing Fragile Regions. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6436-6_6

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