DISASTER, INFRASTRUCTURE, ECONOMIC GROWTH, AND INEQUALITY

Abstract

Effectiveness as well as financial accountability of investments of infrastructure and disaster prevention is guaranteed by economic growth in future. On the other hand, non-uniform distribution of their benefits brings up an issue of cost allocation. Areas of infrastructure planning and disaster management have shown interests in issues of long-term impacts and distribution. Taking recent vigorous discussions on “growth and inequality”, it is meaningful to review past questions and insights derived from them. This draft puts arguments about impacts that disasters and infrastructure investments give on economic growth and inequality into shape, and proposes a new perspective that the area of infrastructure planning could take.