Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies aims to engage, inform, and catalyse scholarly discourse within research real-world practices that work towards the minimisation vulnerabilities disaster risks throughout developing communities with special emphasis on Africa.

We ask two questions related to how access to credit affects the nature of business cycles. First, does the standard theory of unsecured credit account for the high volatility and procyclicality of credit and the high volatility and countercyclicality of bankruptcy filings found in U.S. data? Yes, it does, but only if we explicitly model recessions as displaying countercyclical earnings risk (i...

As we know, there exist many interesting mathematical problems in Theoretical Computer Science, as the comparison of characters between strings, or the acceptation / decision of languages by Turing Machines. Also others, as the ”halting problem” or the ”travel salesman problem”, are undecidable. And many other remain open, only conjectured. We can establish some results, known as Hierarchy Theo...

This paper considers a seeming disconnect between the consensus in policy circles that reducing gender inequalities is to be prioritized in strategies for reducing inequality and poverty, and a view in mainstream economics (and in some policy circles) that gender inequalities are overemphasized. This latter view is not stated openly, it being politically incorrect to do so, but is nevertheless ...