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Vulnerability Index
Log of Population Size
Economic Vulnerability Index
(Briguglio 2016)
The diagram on the right
shows the Economic
Vulnerability Index
,
re-
scaled from 0 to 1 (as
calculated by the present
author) and its relation to
country size.
Vulnerability indices of the
type constructed by the
present author generally
conclude that small states,
especially island ones, tend
to be more economically
vulnerable than other
groups of countries.
SIDS are highly economically vulnerable
3. Economic Vulnerability