Description: Over the last 30 years, the gap in development achievements between many lower-income countries and the OECD has grown and is likely to widen further as a result of climate change.14 Although GDP per capita, human development, capital formation and competitiveness of some low- and middle income countries has approached those of the OECD, others have fallen further behind both their low- and middle-income counterparts and the OECD. Some of these divergent economies may be experiencing ‘resilience traps’, where disaster losses and impacts cause negative feedback into slow development and structural poverty. Climate change may further test the resilience of many of these countries..
Published in: 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction - Revealing Risk, Redefining Development
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