This brief explores initial findings from a survey of rural households in Sindh, Pakistan seeking to understand how they were impacted by the 2022 floods. The results show that flooding was not only severe, but also incredibly prolonged, with floods disrupting lives long after the monsoon was over. Despite near universal exposure of the sample to some degree of flooding, evacuation was far from universal. Very few households in the study have permanently migrated since the floods, raising important questions about the drivers of migration decisions after natural disasters, including the influence of place-based reconstruction programmes.
STEG Project Policy Brief
• Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing,
Research Theme 3: Agricultural Productivity and Sectoral Gaps,
Research Theme 4: Trade and Spatial Frictions,
Cross-Cutting Issue 2: Climate Change and the Environment
How the rural poor cope with a climate catastrophe: Evidence from Pakistan's 2022 floods
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