Atkins, Jonathan P., Mazzi, Sonia V. T., Easter, Christopher D.
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There is growing international recognition that high economic exposure, remoteness and proneness to natural disasters have a debilitating effect on sm
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all economies, despite the fact that some of them exhibit relatively high per capita incomes. This paper presents a Commonwealth vulnerability index that can be used as an additional criterion to augment other factors, such as per capita income, which are taken into account in reaching decisions on the treatment of certain developing countries by international organizations.
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