The Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change Index (Feindouno et al., 2020) is a composite indicator computed at country level (191 countries) that can be used for the identification of the most vulnerable countries and as a criterion for guiding the international allocation of resources for...

The voluntary reallocation of a portion of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) from advanced countries to developing countries is potentially an important transformation in the international monetary system. Attention has so far been focused on the channels of this reallocation, because of the need to...

As commonly agreed, the vulnerability of a country is here considered as the risk it will be hurt by exogenous shocks. The vulnerability of countries has been recognised since the beginning of development economics as one of the main problems they face, due to shocks, either of external or...

Selon l'acception courante, retenue ici, la vulnérabilité d'un pays est le risque pour lui d'être affecté par des chocs exogènes. La vulnérabilité des pays est reconnue depuis le début de l'économie du développement comme un des principaux problèmes auxquels ils ont à faire face, en...