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We focus on four previous systemic financial crises that the United States has experienced since 1870. These include the crisis of 1873 (called the Great Depression until the 1930s), the 1893 crisis, the panic of 1907, and the Great Depression. Given that all of the earlier crises predate the...
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Students of public policy have written a lot over the years about the rise of suburbia and development beyond older city boundaries in the United States, whether such development has been called urban, suburban, or ex-urban sprawl. Many writers have focused on various issues concerning sprawl,...
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A growing number of studies have explored the influence of institution on the outcomes of disasters and accidents from … the viewpoint of political economy. This paper focuses on the probability of the occurrence of disasters rather than … probability of technological disasters. It was found that public sector corruption raises the probability of technological …
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that: (i) overall the impacts of disasters on the consumption level of the household exhibit an inverse relationship, (ii …
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Literature on natural hazards typically perceives disasters to be acts of God (or nature) while restricting the … that disasters are socially constructed and, second, it situates the interactions of large-scale natural forces with local … political-economic conditions within the context of vulnerability to contend that disasters are consequences of unresolved …
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A growing number of works have explored the influence of institution on the outcomes of disasters and accidents from … the viewpoint of political economy. This paper focuses on the probability of the occurrence of disasters rather than … probability of technological disasters. It was found that public sector corruption raises the probability of technological …
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400 miles of New Orleans. Findings suggest that disasters are integral to the formation of risk perceptions and affect the …
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natural disasters has affected corruption within the public sector. There are a number of major findings from this study. (1 …) Natural disasters lead to corruption within the public sector. (2) Furthermore, disaggregating disasters into various … group, increase corruption; however, other types of disasters do not have such a consequence. (3) The effect of floods is …
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This paper summarizes and analyzes the main sources and methods used in the reconstruction of regional GDPs in Colombia for the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition, it is offered a general perspective of the field's evolution in the coming years.
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This paper provides the first detailed quantitative analysis of the economic activity of Antioquia for the nineteenth century and early twentieth. From the existing data for the Colombian economy, it is reconstructed one of the first series of regional GDP in Latin America for the period. We...
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