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In recent years, the economic consequences of disasters and global climate change have received increasing attention, most recently thanks to the activism of young people around the world. The increased impacts of disasters and climate change have significant effects on human and economic development, particularly on the distribution of income and wealth, and on poverty. These impacts raise serious economic, political and social concerns, which have generated a new interest in research both on the factors that contribute to increased poverty and inequality, in this context of disasters and extreme weather, and on the policies designed to reduce them. This special issue, "Poverty, Inequality, and Disasters," consists mostly of papers presented in the CESifo Venice Summer Institute Workshop on Poverty, Inequality and their Associations with Disasters and Climate Change, held in June 2019 on the island of San Servolo in the Bay of Venice, Italy. The empirical analysis of how extreme natural hazard events impact the poor, and affect the distribution of economic outcomes was the main theme of the workshop. Based on much previous work they have undertaken for the World Bank, Hallegatte and coauthors review the literature on poverty and disasters and describe the plethora of evidence that it is the poor that are disproportionally affected by disasters. They further describe the roles of exposure, vulnerability and socioeconomic resilience as factors explaining the vicious circle they identify, whereby disasters increase poverty, and the poor are more vulnerable to disasters. In their telling, public policy should therefore consider poverty reduction as a credible disaster risk management strategy, and vice versa. Aldrich and Tan explore the water resilience of Mexican households after a major earthquake in "Oasis of resilience?". Their empirical investigation of rain water harvesting systems takes place in a high poverty peripheral community in Mexico City. In exploring the drivers of demand, adoption and speed of diffusion of a policy intervention for increased rain water harvesting, they find that vulnerability plays a major role.