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Editorial: Vulnerability and resilience in small island developing states. [PDF]
Front PsychiatryCampbell MH +3 more
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Remittances in Small Island Developing States
Journal of Development Studies, 2010 Abstract We examine how remittances relate to the exchange rate, natural disasters and foreign aid focusing on Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Using panel VAR methods, we are able to compensate for both data limitations and endogeneity issues.
Amuedo-Dorantes, C +2 more
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Sustainable Development Goals and Visualizing Small Island Developing States [PDF]
Proceedings of the ICA, 2019 Abstract. Small-scale thematic maps help to visualize world-wide data, yet small nations can be difficult to discern or are omitted completely. This occurs for small island developing states (SIDS), a group of more than fifty states recognized by the United Nations for their social, economic and environmental vulnerabilities.
Gosling-Goldsmith, J.G. +2 more
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Biodiversity-based development in Small Island Developing States [PDF]
Environment and Development Economics, 2013 AbstractSmall Island Developing States (SIDS) are quite diverse in terms of various development metrics, but are uniformly vulnerable both to macroeconomic shocks and to changes in the biodiversity that supports fisheries and tourism. This special section assembles a set of papers that analyze international demand for the natural resources associated ...
Sonja Teelucksingh +2 more
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China and small-island developing states
African East-Asian Affairs, 2013 Introduction China in recent years has dramatically increased its economic involvement with the global economy and expanded and consolidated its diplomatic and political ties across the world. China’s actions are prompted by an amalgam of economic, political and security motives.
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Hosting the Small Island Developing States: two scenarios [PDF]
International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 2017 Purpose It has been estimated that some Small Island Developing States might have only decades before their territories become uninhabitable. Future of these states poses timely questions to world politics. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the potential hosts and endangered states at the time of relocation by looking at
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The Untrodden Route to Resilience for Small Island Developing States [PDF]
, 2020 This paper examines the broad practical and theoretical research behind a book due for publication in early 2021 entitled ‘Beyond the Blue Economy: Creative Economies and Sustainable Development in Small Island Developing States’. It highlights some of the challenges of delivering the Blue Economy in the real world and the role that the digital ...
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Development aid for energy in Small Island Developing States
Energy, Sustainability and Society, 2019 Abstract Background Energy is given high priority in the national development agendas of most Small Island Developing States (SIDS) because it is intertwined with social, economic and environmental challenges. Many SIDS experience heavy fiscal burdens associated with imported fuels, some have very low electricity access rates, and islands also have a ...
Aaron Atteridge, Georgia Savvidou
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Small island developing states and their economic vulnerabilities [PDF]
World Development, 1995 Abstract Many small island developing states (SIDS) face special disadvantages associated with small size, insularity, remoteness and proneness to natural disasters. These factors render the economies of these states very vulnerable to forces outside their control — a condition which sometimes threatens their very economic viability.
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UNEP and Small Island developing states
, 2004 This chapter highlights UNEP's activities in assisting Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in implementing the Barbados Programme of Action for their Sustainable Development. It covers UNEP's response to eight major areas of concern for SIDS, namely climate change and sea level rise, biodiversity resources, coastal and marine resources, coral reef ...
Binger, Al +2 more
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