Madhavi Pundit
YOU?
Author Swipe
View article: Identifying Cyclone Impacts on Fishing: A Data-Driven Toolkit for Sustainable and Resilient Fisheries
Identifying Cyclone Impacts on Fishing: A Data-Driven Toolkit for Sustainable and Resilient Fisheries Open
Tropical cyclones (TCs) can lead to significant social and economic losses, with the fisheries sector being especially vulnerable to their impacts. There is a growing need to develop new methods for impact assessment, especially as regards…
View article: Monitoring Business Cycle Fluctuations in Asia
Monitoring Business Cycle Fluctuations in Asia Open
This paper introduces an Economic Activity Index that can help provide timely insights on business cycle fluctuations to support effective policy decisions. The paper explains how the index can monitor monthly business cycles in Asian econ…
View article: Assessing “Invisible Loss” During Medium-Term Earthquake Recovery: The Case of Indonesia's 2016 Aceh Earthquakes
Assessing “Invisible Loss” During Medium-Term Earthquake Recovery: The Case of Indonesia's 2016 Aceh Earthquakes Open
This study presents the results of a medium-term assessment of earthquake recovery, aiming to measure non-economic welfare losses resulting from the indirect impacts of earthquakes. While most earthquake assessments concentrate on the econ…
View article: Rapid Insights for Earlier Action
Rapid Insights for Earlier Action Open
managers with swift and cost-effective insights about the likely socioeconomic impacts of disasters.These tools enhance traditional resource-intensive frameworks.
View article: The Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Fishing Activities in the Philippines
The Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Fishing Activities in the Philippines Open
This study looks at fishing activity in the Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone in 2012, as well as how it responded to tropical cyclones. The study identifies the main fishing grounds and examines the impact of tropical cyclone speed on …
View article: Nowcasting from space: tropical cyclones’ impacts on Fiji’s agriculture
Nowcasting from space: tropical cyclones’ impacts on Fiji’s agriculture Open
Ground-based disaster damage assessments typically take the form of a team of experts being sent to the affected areas to conduct a survey. This approach is time-consuming, difficult, and costly. An alternative to this is an assessment bas…
View article: Real exchange rate misalignment and business cycle fluctuations in the<scp>Asia‐Pacific</scp>
Real exchange rate misalignment and business cycle fluctuations in the<span>Asia‐Pacific</span> Open
Real exchange rate (RER) misalignment, which is the deviation between the actual real exchange rate from its equilibrium, occurs frequently among developing countries. Studies have shown that RER misalignment may have negative economic imp…
View article: Economic Applicability of the Automatic Identification System Data
Economic Applicability of the Automatic Identification System Data Open
Policy makers need real-time information for quick and efficient decision-making in response to events.Indicators from automatic identification system (AIS) that tracks ships are increasingly used in economic monitoring and analysis.Applic…
View article: Appraising New Damage Assessment Techniques in Disaster-Prone Fiji
Appraising New Damage Assessment Techniques in Disaster-Prone Fiji Open
Recent technological advances in remote sensing have led to significant increases in temporal, spatial, and spectral resolutions of these images.Improvements have also been made in data availability and accessibility, as well as advances i…
View article: Nowcasting from Space: Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Fiji’s Agriculture
Nowcasting from Space: Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Fiji’s Agriculture Open
This study investigates the feasibility of using remote sensing data for post-disaster damage assessment. Satellite imagery can be a source of easily available, fast, affordable, and accurate data for assessing disaster impacts. This study…
View article: A Gender-Sensitive Earthquake Recovery Assessment Using Administrative and Satellite Data: The Case of Indonesia’s 2016 Aceh Earthquake
A Gender-Sensitive Earthquake Recovery Assessment Using Administrative and Satellite Data: The Case of Indonesia’s 2016 Aceh Earthquake Open
This study assesses the medium-term recovery of women at the village level after the 2016 Aceh earthquake and explains how satellite and administrative data can be used to better identify how to target assistance after a disaster. The stud…
View article: Real Exchange Rate Misalignment and Business Cycle Fluctuations in Asia and the Pacific
Real Exchange Rate Misalignment and Business Cycle Fluctuations in Asia and the Pacific Open
This paper investigates the impact of real exchange rate (RER) misalignment on business cycles among 22 economies in Asia and the Pacific from 1990 to 2018. It employs a panel vector autoregression involving consumer price index (CPI) infl…
View article: Economic growth in China and its impact on international commodity prices
Economic growth in China and its impact on international commodity prices Open
Since the turn of the century, China has experienced economic growth that has called for rapid industrialisation, infrastructure growth and urbanisation, making China highly dependent on primary commodities. The resource intensive growth p…
View article: Financial Shocks and Exchange Market Pressure
Financial Shocks and Exchange Market Pressure Open
The taper tantrum episode induced a sudden outflow of capital from emerging markets back to the United States. This paper analyzes exchange market pressure in 93 developing and emerging market economies during this episode, drawing on rece…
View article: Capital Flows and Financial Stability in Emerging Economies
Capital Flows and Financial Stability in Emerging Economies Open
There is mixed evidence for the impact of international capital flows on financial sector's stability. This paper investigates the relationship between components of gross capital flows and various financial stability indicators for 16 eme…