"This paper examines the implications of bank activity and short-term funding strategies for bank risk and returns …-interest income generating activities such as trading increases the rate of return on assets, and it may offer some risk …, although it can offer some risk reduction at commonly observed low levels of non-deposit funding. A sizeable proportion of …

"Benefit-cost analyses of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects are an important tool for evaluating the efficiency of …

demographic consequences of the Rwandan genocide and how the excess mortality due to the conflict was distributed in the …

addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility … response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income. This paper analyzes three high mortality … positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality …

"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of …

and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have …

contributes to the literature on the economic analysis of conflict. Using mortality data for siblings from the Cambodia … Demographic and Health Survey in 2000, he shows that excess mortality was extremely high and heavily concentrated during 1974 … educated background were more likely to die. Infant mortality was also at very high levels during the period, and disability …