A Conversation with Niall Ferguson on The Politics of Disasters & Catastrophe.

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen…

19-10-2023 12:15:16

Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

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A Conversation with David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC)

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

David Miliband is President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), where he oversees the agency’s humanitarian relief operations in more than 40 war-affected countries and its refugee resettlement and assistance programs in over 20 United States cities. In 2019 alone, the IRC provided 1,474,900 children with schooling and…

19-10-2023 12:15:50

Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

Thought Economics

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Economic Dependencies and Disasters

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

On March 11, 2011 at 05:46 UTC, Japan was hit with a Magnitude 9.0 Mega-Quake (the fourth largest earthquake ever recorded) . To put the size of this quake in perspective, it was 8,000 times more powerful than the one which devastated Christchurch (New Zealand) in February 2011, and around…

19-10-2023 12:17:25

Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

Thought Economics

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