Dominica:Needs Assessment and Recovery Strategy

Dominica Post Hurricane Recovery Plan and Prioritisation

The Post-Damage Needs Assessment (PDNA) of the major agencies, coordinated by the World Bank, puts total damages and losses from Hurricane Maria at 226% of 2016 GDP, or $1.31bn. See the “Damages” and “Losses” columns in Table 1 below. The effect of this damage and loss is greater than this…...

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Post-Disaster Needs Assessment Hurricane Maria September 18, 2017

A Report by the Government  of the Commonwealth of Dominica On September 18, 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Dominica with catastrophic effect. Hurricane Maria was one of the most rapidly intensifying storms in recent history, intensifying to a category 5 hurricane, roughly 24 hours after being upgraded from a tropical storm.…...

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Country Assessment and Recovery Strategy – Information Factsheet/Template

The passage of Hurricane Maria on September 18, 2017 was catastrophic for the infrastructure, economy and people of the Commonwealth of Dominica. A Post Disaster Needs Assessment, undertaken with the UN System, EU and WB, examined the cumulative impacts across sectors and concluded that damages to productive infrastructure exceeded $930…...

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IMF Working Paper Building Resilience to Natural Disasters

— An Application to Small Developing States We present a dynamic small open economy model to explore the macroeconomic impact of natural disasters. In addition to permanent damages to public and private capital, the disaster causes temporary losses of productivity, inefficiencies during the reconstruction process, and damages to the sovereign’s…...

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