The likelihood of a devastating earthquake striking somewhere in Austria, Germany or Switzerland seems remote. But lurking beneath Central Europe is a peril that could lead to large-scale catastrophe losses for insurers and reinsurers, according to research by A.M. Best Co. in its report, Earthquake-Catastrophe Review. Total economic losses likely would climb beyond what most governments could afford. Because of a variety of factors, including the growing concentration of exposed property, the quality of existing building stock and the soil on which much of Central Europe rests, even an earthquake that measures a magnitude of 6.0 could be sufficient to produce at least $10 billion in total losses. As awareness of the peril has grown among the European population, some countries that pre...
... previously had excluded earthquakes from standard insurance policies now include it. Others are cons...
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MADRID, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Government debt burdens in most advanced economies could reach unsustainable levels of over 300% of GDP in the next 40 years, without fresh measures to address long- term age-related spending trends, according to a new study by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services. The report, titled "Global Aging 2010: An Irreversible Truth," and published on RatingsDirect, updates Standard & Poor's 2007 study on the sustainability of public finances in the light of demographic change and now covers 49 countries, totaling more than two-thirds of the world's population. To accompany the report, we also published a supplement on the methodology and sources used in our calculations, "Global Aging 2010: An Irreversible Truth--Methodological And Data Supplement. In our view, po...
... in the advanced and emerging European economies, have been increasingly undertaking refo...
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The dissemination of birth control was only one of a host of interventions into the intimate and everyday practices of ordinary Egyptians that aimed at creating reformed and modernized families and productive citizens. [...] the adoption of a population program based on contraception entailed the recognition of Egyptian women as reproductive subjects for whom using birth control was to constitute part of the duties of citizenship even as it simultaneously delineated the normative parameters within which reproductive choice could be exercised.
... was expected to drop, further improving standards of living and aiding the process of Egypt's "trans... had recently gained independence from European colonial control. The period immediately following...
.... In Italy, as in many European countries (Luder, Jones 2003; FEE 2007), local gov... The TUEL is supported by the accounting standards issued by the Committee for Local Government's Acc..., and because for municipalities with a population between 3,000 and 5,000 inhabitants the requiremen...
... on a journey of reform as old as the European Enlightenment. For contrary to so much commentary-...Over the past two decades, the standard of living in the non-oil Arab states has dropped p... a young and increasingly well-educated population entered the job market .. only to find that there ...
... War resumption of the international gold standard, underconsumption (reinforced by so-called debt de...But when European agriculture's recovery from the Great War largely ... in 1930, and the fraction of the 1930 population that was black. Along with reporting the results o...
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