Research Catalog

Title

Economic Effects of the 1999 Turkish Earthquakes [electronic resource]: An Interim Report / Alexandra Bibbee ... [et al]

Publication

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2000.

Details

Additional Authors

• Bibbee, Alexandra.
• Gönenç, Rauf.
• Jacobs, Scott.
• Konvitz, Josef.
• Price, Robert.

Description

47 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.

Summary

This Working Paper presents a cross-Directorate Report on the economic, budgetary, regulatory and urbanpolicy implications of the earthquakes which struck the Marmara and Bolu areas of Turkey on 17 August and 12 November 1999. The earthquakes caused high casualties and significant material damage to property, with severe effects on economic activity. The Report traces the factors underlying Turkey's vulnerability to earthquake damage, along a known active fault line, to deficiencies in risk identification procedures and risk-reduction methods, as well as to the absence of risk transfer and financing techniques. It suggests that these deficiencies may stem from the nature of recent Turkish economic development, which has been driven by the need to assimilate a mass migration from the countryside to the cities and has been associated with extremely high and variable inflation. Ensuring a more orderly future development requires both an overhaul of governance structures in ...

Series Statement

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.247

Uniform Title

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no.247.

Subject

• Economics
• Turkey

LCCN

10.1787/233456804045

OCLC

oecd-lib

Title

Economic Effects of the 1999 Turkish Earthquakes [electronic resource]: An Interim Report / Alexandra Bibbee ... [et al]

Imprint

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2000.

Series

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.247

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.247.

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Indexed Term

Economics

Turkey

Added Author

Bibbee, Alexandra.

Gönenç, Rauf.

Jacobs, Scott.

Konvitz, Josef.

Price, Robert.

Other Standard Identifier

10.1787/233456804045 doi