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When states collapse. When basic state functions are no longer carried out. When people have no security. Then humanitarian crises erupt. This article will focus on the response to humanitarian crises in relation to state collapse. What are the roles and responsibilities of the media and the political decision-makers respectively? Confronting the problem of state collapse, the stronger states h...

It is anticipated that humanitarian crisis situations will continue to occur in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region affecting large segments of vulnerable populations. Subsequently the magnitude and effectiveness of the humanitarian response, particularly for food and nutrition, must be based on best practices and sound information of affected populations. To bridge the burgeoning gap...

By importing food and agricultural goods, countries cope with the heterogeneous global water distribution and often rely on water resources available abroad. The virtual displacement of the water used to produce such goods (known as virtual water) connects together, in a global water system, all countries participating to the international trade network. Local food-production crises, having soc...

International financial integration helps to diversify risk but also may increase the transmission of crises across countries. We provide a quantitative analysis of this trade-off in a two-country general equilibrium model with endogenous portfolio choice and collateral constraints. Collateral constraints bind occasionally, depending upon the state of the economy and levels of inherited debt. T...

This paper argues, first, that, despite some similarities, financial crises in the 1990s have featured substantial differences between them: the ERM crisis of 1992-93 was mainly due to stringent monetary policies; the Mexican crisis of 1994-95 was associated to private overconsumption; and the East Asian crises of 1997-99 were basically the result of private overinvestment. Therefore, as crises...

The aim of the study is to test nexus between energy prices risk and efficiency for transition recommend implication period COVID-19 crises. This uses short-term daily data G-20 countries crises was taken better estimate findings. To results Data Envelopment Analysis estimation method applied empirical inference. findings revealed that have biggest negative influence with 47.1% on oil which rai...

Currently, three trends mutually influence each other and can be observed using social media: (a) the growing use of social media, in particular Twitter, by organizations, (b) increased expectations of transparency towards organizations, and (c) massive public response to organizational crises via social media. Getting an understanding on how customers and organizations react to crises and cris...

"If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it." The economic history of the world is replete with recessions and depressions. From the bursting of the British South Sea Bubble and the French Mississippi Bubble in 1720 (which at least one economic historian claims delayed the industrial revolution by 50 years) to the in...