00559nam a2200085Ia 4500100002000000245007100020260000900091520035400100583001900454 aBRIGUGLIO, Lino aSmall island developing states and their economic vulnerabilities. c1995 aGives a brief account of the most important vulnerabilities of small island developing states, viz. small size, remoteness and insularity, disaster proneness, environmental fragility, dependence on foreign sources of finance, and, demographic changes due to emigration. Proposes a method for constructing an index to measure economic vulnerability. c3/7/00kM2LMGR