In the general presentation of the criteria that the MVI should meet, we emphasized the importance of the way by which the three dimensions of the MVI are averaged in a single index and the need to limit the substitutability between them, so that the specific vulnerability of each country can be...

Origin of the concept related to vulnerability. Before recently invading the vocabulary of the social sciences, the concept of resilience was a physical notion that referred to shock resistance. The use that is now made of it in the social sciences, particularly in economics, psychology, and...

Dans la présentation générale des critères auxquels l’Indice de vulnérabilité multidimensionnelle (MVI) doit répondre, nous avons indiqué l’importance de la manière dont est calculée la moyenne de ses trois dimensions de façon à obtenir un seul indice : l’objectif est de...

La question est posée de savoir si l'inégalité à l'intérieur des pays devait être considérée comme un élément et donc un indicateur de la vulnérabilité dans le cadre de l'indicateur de vulnérabilité multidimensionnelle. Oui, bien sûr, entend-on puisque la «réduction des...

The MVI project was born from a UN General Assembly Resolution that gives it legitimacy, conditioned by its economic rationale (see the previous notes prepared for UNDESA-OHRLLS for their support to the work of the High-Level Panel on MVI: Guillaumont, Feindounou, Wagner, 2022; and Guillaumont,...

Le projet d’Indice de vulnérabilité multidimensionnelle (MVI) est né d’une résolution de l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU qui lui donne sa légitimité, conditionnée par sa logique économique. Il est utile de revenir aux fondements de cet indice et de ses composants envisagés pour...

In the run-up to the Paris Summit, the question of mobilizing new resources to finance development and global public goods seems to receive much more attention than the way in which these new funds, like the old ones, are allocated among countries. If there is to be a "financial pact", it should...

In the run-up to the Paris Summit, the question of mobilizing new resources to finance development and global public goods seems to receive much more attention than the way in which these new funds, like the old ones, are allocated among countries. If there is to be a "financial pact", it should...