Search Results - subject:"economic disruption"

Natural natural disasters and economic disruption

Zylberberg, Yanos - HAL - 2010

The cost of natural calamities is not limited to direct capital losses. Economies in the wake of severe shocks experience important slowdowns. I construct an exhaustive dataset of objective measures on cyclones and earthquakes worldwide between 1980 and 2006 and complement existing reports on...

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Business Disruption Due to Earthquake-Induced Lifeline Interruption

Nigg, Joanne M. - 1995

continuity for minimizing economic disruption. This paper focuses on the indirect economic impacts of lifeline disruption on …

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Democratic Politics, War and Catch-Up

Castles, Francis G. - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 3 (1991) 1, pp. 5-25

achievement of collective goals. Empirically, it is confused and conflates the effects of economic convergence, wartime economic … disruption and democratic participation. The `awfulness' of English-speaking performance is demonstrated to be largely an outcome …

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