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OPPORTUNITY COST OF COVID-19 BUDGET REALLOCATIONS: ETHIOPIA
This brief forms part of a cross-country study on the opportunity cost of reallocating budgets in response to disasters. The study, which this brief is based on, seeks to identify and quantify the opportunity costs associated with diverting funding from planned budgeted activities in Ethiopia, using the covid-19 pandemic as a case study to analyse public expenditure decisions, with a focus on what was not spent as a result of the pandemic.
OPPORTUNITY COST OF COVID-19 BUDGET REALLOCATIONS: SOUTH AFRICA
This brief forms part of a cross-country study on the opportunity cost of reallocating budgets in response to disasters. The study, which this brief is based on, seeks to identify and quantify the opportunity costs associated with diverting funding from planned budgeted activities in South Africa, using the covid-19 pandemic as a case study to analyse public expenditure decisions, with a focus on what was not spent as a result of the pandemic.
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT PREPARING FINANCIALLY FOR DISASTERS? AN ASSESSMENT OF THE EVIDENCE GAP
A strong body of evidence provides a compelling case that the current policy response to disasters—sudden, calamitous events that cause losses that exceed a community’s or society’s ability to cope using its own resources—is inadequate. This brief reviews the evidence on the welfare impacts of proactive approaches to setting up finance for disaster response.