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What if all countries were actually in the same boat? A comparison of countries' vulnerability based on Markov Switching Models

Vannier, Brendan - 2016

This article aims at assessing the main characteristics of the business cycle of 80 developed and developing countries. By comparing the possibility for these economies to enter or to exit a recession and the associated consequences, it aims at complementing existing literature with regard to...

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Vulnerability to poverty: Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis

Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John; … - 2016

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …

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Increasing Persistent Poverty in Germany

Groh-Samberg, Olaf - In: Weekly Report 3 (2007) 4, pp. 21-26

included in the analysis persistent poverty does appear to be on the increase. An increase in vulnerability, that is, swinging …

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Armut in Deutschland verfestigt sich

Groh-Samberg, Olaf - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 12, pp. 177-182

Nach den Armuts- und Reichtumsberichten der Bundesregierung hat die Einkommensarmut in Deutschland den höchsten Stand seit 20 Jahren erreicht. Dieser statistische Befund wird vielfach als Beleg für die Existenz und das Wachstum einer "abgehängten Unterklasse" gesehen. In anderen Szenarien...

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Vulnerability to Poverty: Tajikistan during and after the Global Financial Crisis

Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John; … - 2017

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Climate change and coastal zones: An overview of the state-of-the-art on regional and local vulnerability assessment

Sterr, Horst; Klein, Richard; Reese, Stefan - 2000

This paper provides an overview of the latest developments in methodologies for assessing the vulnerability of coastal … zones to climate change at regional and local scales. The focus of vulnerability assessment in coastal zones used to be on … variables that play a part in determining coastal vulnerability, as well as non-climatic developments. The paper presents a …

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Climate change impacts on the Mediterranean Coastal Zones

Brochier, Frédéric; Ramieri, Emiliano - 2001

examines the regional differences in the vulnerability of Mediterranean coastal zones from existing studies and projections for …

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The impacts of climate change on water resources of Lebanon-Eastern Mediterranean

Khawlie, Mohamad R. - 2001

Contrary to current notions about water abundance in Lebanon, the country is facing serious problems of unavailability, both in quantity and quality, geographical and sectoral. Even though this is due to several existing human-related aspects, i.e. management, ill-finance, non-integration and...

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Health and Body Mass Index: No Simple Relationship

Hübler, Olaf - 2017

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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Vulnerability to poverty: Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis

Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Ksennia; Lane, John Landon; … - 2016

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