Profiling Vulnerability and Resilience A Manual for Small States

by Briguglio, Lino; Vella, Stephanie; Cordina, Gordon; Vigilance, Constance

• ISBN13: 9781849290357
• ISBN10: 1849290350
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-01
• Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat

Summary

Profiling Vulnerability and Resilience: A Manual for Small Statesprovides a tool for assessing both how prone a country is to external economic shocks #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; its vulnerability #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; as well as its ability to bounce back from those shocks #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; its resilience. The book explains how to conduct assessments that will allow each country to understand its relative vulnerability and resilience, and to identify priority areas for economic policy-making, so as to better cope with vulnerability and boost resilience. Detailed examples are provided for St Lucia, Seychelles and Vanuatu. For economic planners, as well as students of the economies of small states.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. iv
Introduction1
Concepts and measurements	p. 5
Updating and augmenting the economic vulnerability index	p. 5
Economic resilience: Concepts and measurements	p. 16
Juxtaposing economic vulnerability and resilience	p. 28
Country profiling	p. 37
Profiling economic vulnerability and resilience conceptual underpinnings	p. 37
Practical steps for profiling economies in terms of vulnerability and resilience	p. 46
Examples of country profiles	p. 71
St Lucia: A country profile of economic vulnerability and economic resilience	p. 71
Seychelles: A profile of economic vulnerability and economic resilience	p. 85
Vanuatu: A profile of economic vulnerability and economic resilience	p. 99
Recent developments in St Lucia, Seychelles and Vanuatu	p. 118
Annex Country analysis by international organisations and regional development banks	p. 123
References	p. 137
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