Resilience of cities to external shocks: Analysis, modeling and economic impacts

The Resilience of Caribbean Tourism to External Shocks

As with most industries, tourism is susceptible to external shocks from time to time. A study employed by Browne, Edwards and Moore (2009) suggests that shocks to the Caribbean tourist industry tend to have temporary rather than permanent effects, implying that Caribbean tourism is fairly resilient to these negative influences. This paper further investigates specific shocks, namely GDP and oil...

Economic shocks and health resilience: lessons from the Russian Federation.

BACKGROUND Despite extensive research on determinants of health, there is much less information on factors protecting health among those exposed to economic shocks. Using longitudinal data from the Russian Federation in the post-Soviet period, we examined individual-level factors that enhance resilience of health to economic shocks. METHODS Logistic regression analysed factors associated with...

Oil Price Shocks and Russia’s Economic Growth: The Impacts and Policies for Overcoming Them

Considering Russia’s rich and vast oil resources, this country is one of the world’s greatest producers and exporters of this nonrenewable energy resource, and like other petrostates, receives a major part of its national income in this way. The dependence of Russia’s budget on oil has raised the significance of world oil price fluctuations for this country. Since 1970s, the global oil market h...

Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Economic Resilience Index

Resilience is defined in different ways by different disciplines and different authors but in general resilience may be defined as the ability of a system and its component parts to anticipate, absorb, accommodate, or recover from the effects of a hazardous event in a timely and efficient manner. Resilience is applicable at the micro as macro level, and for this reason, is sometimes defined as ...

Economic Impacts of Immigrants and Ethnic Diversity on Cities