A study on the disaster mitigation impact of annual regional miigation expenditure
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2026-01-06
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As typhoons enter the Philippines year-round, the country is constantly faced with multiple issues in recovering from such disasters. Due to these events, the government is challenged to respond and adapt concurrently as typhoons have increased on a large-scale and their effects are as devastating as ever. This is where the LDRRMF is utilized: a local disaster fund that seeks to respond to pre and post disasters. However, literature suggests the importance of maximizing the utilization of pre-disaster measures such as improved weather monitoring, early warning systems, investments to improve social safety nets, and several more. The main of these measures being to respond better to such catastrophes. Hence, the study focuses on this portion of the LDRRMF and analyzes its effect on disaster impacts, specifically through the number of affected people per region annually.
A regional fixed-effects method was used in order to study this relationship, along with added measures for hazard through the max-24-hour rainfall and max wind speed, exposure through regional population, and vulnerability through gross regional domestic product and functional literacy. Regional data concerning these measures
were attained from 2017-2024 to view a trend on the relationship. The study finds a positive relationship between the pre-disaster portion of the LDRRMF and the number of affected people by region, a rather unorthodox outcome as the opposite would be the ideal case. In the case of disaster economics, the study focuses mainly on typhoons and super typhoons as these are the costliest disasters in the Philippines.
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Natural disaster, Typhoon