Christopher D. Easter’s scientific contributions

... Over the past decades, there have been various attempts at constructing an index to assess the susceptibility of countries to the adverse effects of these exogenous forces. Amongst these are the Commonwealth Vulnerability Index pioneered by Atkins et al. [27] and the UN EVI introduced in 1999 following the study of [19]. The general assumption is that a country's increased dependence on international trade causes more exposure to external economic shocks, while a country's high reliance on a small range of exports also exacerbates its exposure to external factors. ...

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Unveiling economic resilience: exploring the impact of financial vulnerabilities on economic volatility through the economic vulnerability index

... [12][13][14][15][16] Since the last decade of the 20th century, vulnerability has started to be examined in relation to particular spaces, such as urban centers 17,18 or, later on, at the scale of island states. [19][20][21] In the 21st century, vulnerability consolidated its role as a key concept for risk reduction in the official documents designed by the United Nations Organization (UNO): the Hyogo Framework for Action (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030). 22,23 The first of these two frameworks draws attention to the necessity of investigating the physical, social, economic, and environmental factors that model vulnerability, while the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) sets seven global goals, of which four are related to the vulnerability of human communities; a focus that, in our view, underlines the importance of the concept. ...

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From static to dynamic: Conceptual and operational developments of vulnerability

... Another approach was based on the use of regression and was earlier proposed by Wells (1997) and used by Atkins et al. (1998Atkins et al. ( , 2000. They took GDP volatility as a proxy for vulnerability. ...

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Economic Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Composite Indicators