Profiling Vulnerability and Resilience
A Manual for Small States

The book explains how to conduct assessments that will allow each country to understand its relative vulnerability and resilience, and to identify priority areas for economic policy-making, so as to better cope with vulnerability and boost resilience. Detailed examples are provided for St Lucia, Seychelles and Vanuatu.
For economic planners, as well as students of the economies of small states.
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Seychelles: A profile of economic vulnerability and economic resilience
This report presents a profile of the economic vulnerability and economic resilience of Seychelles. Economic vulnerability is defined as the exposure of an economy to harmful external economic shocks that are outside the economy’s control, typically resulting from high degrees of economic openness and dependence on a narrow range of exports. Economic resilience refers to the policy-induced ability of an economy to withstand and rebound fromthe negative effects of such shocks. In this report, such resilience is associated with macro-economic stability, market efficiency, good political governance, social development and good environmentalmanagement, as explained in Briguglio et al. (2006, 2009). Economic vulnerability and insufficient resilience typically lead to a slower and more volatile pattern of economic development (Cordina 2004a, 2004b).
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