Research on the economic and human toll of natural disasters focuses on the short-term, often ignoring the important long-term impacts of these catastrophic events. The main reason for the lack of empirical research on the long-term is the inherent and unavoidable difficulty in identifying any...

In spite of a long history of coastal disasters worldwide and detailed studies of their short-term impacts, there is still little information about the longer-term economic and socio-economic consequences of these events. The long-term impacts of natural disasters are “hidden” since...

In an input-output context the impact of any particular industrial sector is commonly measured in terms of the output multiplier for that industry. Although such measures are routinely calculated and often used to guide regional industrial policy the behaviour of such measures over time is an...

The measurement of inter-connectedness in an economy using input-output tables is not new, however much of the previous literature has not had any explicit dynamic dimension. Studies have tried to estimate the degree of inter-relatedness for an economy at a given point in time using one...

Research on Singapore's economic history has been complicated by the absence of economic data on pre-independence Singapore. This book aims to fill the gap by presenting a time-series of historical GDP estimates for the periods 1900–39 and 1950–60. The new data presented in the...

This study examines the complex relation among environmental taxes, productive capacities, urbanization, and their collective effects on environmental quality in Africa, drawing on two decades of data from twenty African countries. It situates the study within the broader discourse on...

El autor, luego de analizar los fundamentos del Plan Nacional de DesarrolloHacia un Estado Comunitario", examina la existencia de una definida políticade desarrollo territorial en el documento gubernamental, encontrandoque sólo se perfilaron algunos elementos, más referidos al...

El presente documento evalúa la hipótesis de convergencia en indicadores sociales en la región Caribe durante el período 1985-2005 y contrasta los resultados obtenidos con los patrones de convergencia en el resto del país, usando el índice de Necesidades Básicas Insatisfechas a nivel...

This paper quantifies the economic impact of geographical features using Colombian data at the municipal level. We use the proportion of slave population in 1835 as an instrument of current institutions. We find that, controlling for institutional quality, geographical characteristics, such as...

El objetivo de este documento es realizar un análisis espacial acerca de la dinámica de las migraciones internas recientes en Colombia; en específi co durante el periodo del 2000-2005 con base en información censal. Así, se identifica mediante un modelo gravitacional que los fl ujos...