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Title: The Authors [Economic vulnerability and resilience of small states] Abstract: List of the authors that contributed in L. Briguglio & E. J. Kisanga (Eds.), Economic vulnerability and resilience of small states.

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Title: Foreword [Economic vulnerability and resilience of small states] Abstract: This publication is an outcome of a conference on vulnerability and resilience of small states, organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat and the University of Malta on the island of Gozo in March 2004. Most of the chapters in this volume are based on presentations by the experts who attended that workshop. The collaboration between the University of Malta and the Commonwealth Secretariat is well established, and has borne fruit in terms of training workshops, expert meetings and high quality publications.

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Title: Introduction [Economic vulnerability and resilience of small states] Authors: Briguglio, Lino; Kisanga, Eliawony J. Abstract: The economic vulnerability of small states has, during the past two decades or so, been explored by many analysts. The awareness that small economic size almost necessarily leads to a high degree of economic openness and export concentration has led to the conclusion that such states are very exposed to factors outside their control, and they are therefore very susceptible to external shocks. The high degree of fluctuations in GDP and in export earnings registered by many small states is considered as one of the manifestations of such exposure.

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Title: Economic vulnerability and resilience : concepts and measurements Authors: Briguglio, Lino Abstract: This chapter deals mostly with the definition of terms regarding economic vulnerability and economic resilience so as to distinguish between those economic conditions that are responsive to policy measures and those that are not. The author argues that it would be useful conceptually and methodologically to confine the discussion on economic vulnerability of a country to inherent and permanent economic features which render that country exposed to damaging forces outside its control. In this sense, economic vulnerability would not be responsive to domestic policy measures. It follows that the components of the Vulnerability Index should measure inherent features only. The author further argues that the discussion on economic resilience should refer to policy-induced changes, which affect the country's ability to cope with or withstand its inherent vulnerability. The chapter also proposes the construction of an index of resilience to complement the vulnerability index, so as to assess the risk of a country being harmed by external shocks. The resilience index could also serve to assess the extent to which economically vulnerable countries, individually or as a group, are moving ahead or otherwise, in coping with or withstanding their economic vulnerability. A number of variables which could be used to construct a composite resilience index are proposed.

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