Lino Briguglio

University of Malta · Department of Economics

This volume is organized in three parts dealing with aspects of civil society and social movements in small states in the political, social and environmental spheres, respectively. Various definitions of civil society are proposed in the chapters, but most of the contributors associate the term with organized groups operating in the interests of ci...

This book vast array of philosophical, political, cultural, and ethical perspectives on how best to organise the visitor economy. The book presents a series of international cases, from Cambodia to China, Egypt to the British cathedral city of Lincoln. Therefore, it, if not explicitly, implicitly intimates a view on 'how things are done' differentl...

Scattered around the tropics and sub-tropics are several dozen states and sub-national jurisdictions considered to be Small Island Developing States (SIDS). This book sets out to explore vulnerable and resilient communities in SIDS, how these are and are not impacted by climate change, and how to evaluate mitigation and adaptation activities. It al...

This chapter briefly reviews the literature on tourism carrying capacity, sustainable tourism and overtourism, three concepts interlinked with each other, and are often used to stress the costs of tourism development as well as the need for good environmental governance. In the literature, environmental degradation is viewed as one of the downsides...

This book explores how vulnerable and resilient communities from SIDS are affected by climate change; proposes and, where possible, evaluates adaptation activities; identifies factors capable of enhancing or inhibiting SIDS people’s long-term ability to deal with climate change; and critiques the discourses, vocabularies, and constructions around S...

In this paper we present a literature review about the need for education to promote an understanding of climate change and its impacts, and the merits of teaching climate change in a multidisciplinary approach. We also refer to the external and internal multiplier effect of multidisciplinary education. We report on the results of a survey carried...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether good governance across countries, utilising the Rule of Law indicator of the Worldwide Governance Indicators, is associated with economic growth, measured in terms of real GDP. It is to be noted that in this paper both variables are measured in terms of changes, comparing like with like. It is...

This article places the European Union (EU) small states within the Vulnerability and Resilience Framework, and tests the correlation between economic resilience and competitiveness. In this analysis, economic resilience is associated with good economic, social and political governance, and economic vulnerability is associated with exposure to exte...

This chapter will attempt to show that there are many factors associated with a small domestic market that have a bearing on competition law and policy, and therefore, the competition regime of a small state should take these factors into account. Special reference will be made to Malta, where competition legislation is modelled on EU competition l...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to revise, update and extend the economic vulnerability and economic resilience indices, where economic vulnerability is associated with inherent exposure to external shocks and economic resilience with policies that enable a country to minimize or withstand the negative effects of such shocks. This study also...

The paper tests the hypothesis that small member states of the European Union (EU) experience economies of scale constraints. This study adopts a production function approach, utilising data from the 27 differently sized EU member countries. The results confirm the hypothesis and indicate that larger EU member countries incur lower costs per unit o...

The paper tests the hypothesis that member states of the European Union have been experiencing declining share of labour income due to technological advance. In the literature, this decline is associated with inequality in the distribution of income, reduction in aggregate demand, and threats to social cohesion. In this paper, the results of an eco...

This chapter presents a revised vulnerability/resilience framework, building on the work of Briguglio et al. (2009).1 The chapter also revises and updates the economic vulnerability and economic resilience indices, the former associated with exposure to external shocks and the latter with policies that can enable a country to minimise or withstand...

Small island developing states tend to be highly exposed to external economic shocks because of their inherent characteristics, mostly associated with trade openness. However there are policy measures which enable small states to reduce or withstand the harm resulting from exposure to external shocks, which Briguglio et al (2009)* term as resilienc...

The presentation utilises the vulnerability/resilience framework, developed by Briguglio et. al (2009) to derive a number of policy measures that could enable small states to withstand or reduce the harm associated with their very high exposure to external economic shocks.

It has long been recognized that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from small islands are negligible in relation to global emissions, but that the threats of climate change and sea level rise (SLR) to small islands are very real. Indeed, it has been suggested that the very existence of some atoll nations is threatened by rising sea levels associated w...

This article tests the hypothesis that member states of the EU have been experiencing a declining share of labour income due to technological advance. It discusses factors that lead to the fall in the labour share, including technological advance, which is a tendency found in the capitalist system. We also identify the undesirable effects of a fall...

Executive Summary Current and future climate-related drivers of risk for small islands during the 21st century include sea level rise (SLR), tropical and extratropical cyclones, increasing air and sea surface temperatures, and changing rainfall patterns (high confidence; robust evidence, high agreement). {WGI AR5 Chapter 14; Table 29-1} Current imp...

The presentation describes the vulnerability/resilience framework developed by Briguglio et al. (2009)* and puts forward a number of policy recommendations for resilience building in the Pacific Island Countries. * Briguglio, L., Cordina, G., Farrugia, N. and Vella, S. (2009). “Economic Vulnerability and Resilience: Concepts and Measurements,” Oxf...

Very few countries can afford to ignore the potential repercussions emanating from climate change. However, few afford to take the steps to ensure the laying of full-coverage groundwork structures that ensure future analytical studies. This paper deals with the stepped-approach taken by a Mediterranean island state, to ensure the creation of a base...

This paper assesses why the 2008–2009 global economic recession impacted East Asia less than it did the United States (US) and the European Union (EU). The paper utilizes a “growth-with-resilience” (GWR) index aimed at measuring the extent to which a country can absorb or counteract external shocks and at the same time promote economic growth. The...

This book gives an overview of the Maltese economy and ties a number of changes to macroeconomic theory. The chapters cover a wide array of subjects including consumption expenditure, investment expenditure, government expenditure, the foreign sector, population changes, the Maltese labour market, Malta and the EU and Malta in an international cont...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the risk of a population in a given territory being harmed by climate change by distinguishing between: natural factors, which are associated with inherent vulnerability; and man‐made or policy‐induced factors, which are associated with adaptation. It is argued that this distinction is useful as a me...

In this paper, economic vulnerability is defined as the exposure of an economy to exogenous shocks, arising out of economic openness, while economic resilience is defined as the policy-induced ability of an economy to withstand or recover from the effects of such shocks. The paper briefly reviews the work already carried out on economic vulnerabili...

Relevant legislation and statutory standards The Control of Concentrations Regulations (the “Regulations”) were amended on 13 March 2007 by the Control of Concentrations (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (the “Amending Regulations”). The latter regulations modified the notification threshold and the time-limit for notification of merger operations, intr...

This paper develops a conceptual and methodological framework for the analysis and measurement of economic resilience. The working definition of economic resilience adopted in this paper is the "nurtured" ability of an economy to recover from or adjust to the effects of adverse shocks to which it may be inherently exposed. This concept is used to p...

This paper discusses the constraints that small jurisdic- tions face in matters associated with competition law and policy in view of their small domestic market. Special reference will be made to Malta, where competition legislation is modelled on EC law. The thrust of the argument is that certain aspects of competition law may not be desirable to...

This article introduces a symposium on the Governance of Small Jurisdictions developed from selected papers first presented at a conference at the Islands and Small States Institute of the University of Malta in November 1999. It notes the important role of the University of Malta in promoting the study of governance in small states, and recognises...

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This paper tests the hypothesis that small country size is associated with constraints relating to economies of scale in manufacturing. The study adopts a production function approach, utilizing data from 43 differently sized countries. The results, confirming the hypothesis, lend empirical support to the presumption that small countries face serio...

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. The GDP or GNP per capi...

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This paper attempts to show that changes in the Maltese terms of trade are influenced by Malta's direction of trade, and not by the agricultural/manufacturing composition of exports and imports. It is shown that the deterioration (or improvement) of Malta's commodity terms of trade may be linked to the fact that Malta has to compete with developing...

In this study an aggregate labour market model is formulated and its parameters estimated, using Maltese annual time-series data, covering the years 1955–79. The constraint that the wage rate clears the market in all periods is not imposed and the model is specified in such a way as to enable the reseacher to judge whether or not the assumption of...

1. Background Small states 1 are economically vulnerable because of their inherent proneness to exogenous shocks over which they can exercise very little control, if any. Such shocks in the main emanate from the small states' structural openness to international trade, their high dependence on a narrow range of exports and their reliance on strateg...

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