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This paper presents a large panel study on the macroeconomic consequences of natural catastrophes and analyzes the extent to which risk transfer to insurance markets facilitates economic recovery. Our main results are that major natural catastrophes have large and signi cant negative e ects on...
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This paper reviews the critical theoretical and policy issues relating to growth, economic development and structural … options, particularly with respect to trade and its implications for the process of growth and development. The discussion of … vulnerability touches upon methodological and data issues relating to measurement, provides a critique of alternative indices and …
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This paper deals with the foundation of labour heterogeneity in Côte d'Ivoire, in the case of enterprises by questioning the insertion process in the international economy and in the case of small productive units by analysing the insertion process in the local economy. The study uses detailed...
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and corruption not only remain, they have become the primary development challenges of the 21st century. In particular … development in Africa. Furthermore, defeating a terrorist network requires African nations to work with international partners to … mighty through GOD in pulling down strongholds and demonic imaginations. As a road-map to sustainable development, the paper …
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vulnerability of those who have power as a necessary condition for the development of both the powerless and the powerful. …Although there are several models that seek to understand development, few authors try to characterize underdevelopment … under an all-encompassing concept. This is why the notion of vulnerability, as exposed by Goulet in The Cruel Choice (1971 …
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, assesses the underlying vulnerability that has been created, and discusses the implications of this development for other … account surpluses. This paper documents this development, describes the underlying factors that have brought it about …
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, in which development is an important determinant of vulnerability, the hypothesis is tested whether development aid is … vulnerability to climate change: economic growth and greenhouse gas emission reduction. Using a complex climate change impact model … accepted for Latin America and, particularly, Africa. The explanation for the difference is that development (aid) reduces …
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implications of such vulnerability. …
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