The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off …

Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper … proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as the … process at the household level, this risk assessment provides new insights into disaster risks in Sri Lanka. The analysis …

strong dependence, respectively. The factor exhibits a robust negative correlation with market measures of aggregate risk …

In 2013, the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank Group endorsed two ambitious goals: eliminating extreme … poverty in the world by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity. The latter is defined as fostering the growth in the income of … the poorest 40 percent of the population in each country. In 2016-17, the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group …

Gallup World Poll, the paper presents a range of estimates of the wealth-equivalent values of social trust. Such values are …