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Economic vulnerability is approached from micro- and macroeconomic perspectives. While the microeconomic perspective is … impact of these shocks on economic growth. This paper reviews the literature on macroeconomic vulnerability and finds that … there is no single approach to understanding macroeconomic vulnerability in the context of financial and economic crises in …
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Much research to date has tended to view vulnerability by discipline or sector, yet individuals and households …-dimensional vulnerability is likely to become an increasingly important concept if the outlook over the next 15 to 25 years is one of multiple … intellectual strands involved in multi-dimensional vulnerability analysis. In light of the above, this paper reviews the literature …
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levels to classify Bolivian households by level of vulnerability. Regression analysis is then carried out to determine the … factors and strategies associated with high resilience or high vulnerability. The results show that the single most important …
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Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a number of methodological issues and relevant influences on health. This paper investigates empirically whether neglecting these items leads to systematically different estimates....
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The concepts vulnerability, resilience and community are widely used and abused in the literature on natural hazards … and disaster risk reduction. This paper seeks to bring greater rigour in their use. In particular, vulnerability must be … inverse of vulnerability, and by others as an independent quality. These confusions may be especially relevant in the context …
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The labor market for musical actors is very challenging for several reasons. On the one hand, it is difficult to acquire a position: qualification requirements are high, competition is fierce and reputation is difficult to build up. On the other hand, once in it is often necessary to get out:...
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resources amplifies the vulnerability of municipalities to this threat of health pandemic. In this regard, we seek to identify … the Bolivian municipalities that present the highest rates of health vulnerability (IVS). The IVS distinguishes three main …
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and shared through discourse. Actors' shared perceptions of vulnerability and practices to create resilience should be … culturally shared ideas of vulnerability and resilience are discursively embedded. …
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We examine the supply-side characteristics - unskilled labor, imported input intensity, dependence on inputs from China, production complexity - that determine different potential vulnerabilities of traded products to the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on monthly exports at the product level by all...
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-chain vulnerability given the large share of risky products in high-tech product categories. Third, we apply a 'partial global extraction …
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