Table of Contents

1
Three reasons to use the EVI

1. It captures island-specific economic
   vulnerability
2. It provides a fair basis for making vulnerability
   a paramount criterion in the review of the list
   of LDCs (graduation cases)
3. It brings ammunition to SIDS in their advocacy
   for special treatment

2
Three dimensions of economic vulnerability within
the EVI
3
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
TUVALU
(EVI 70.32 Threshold 33)
4
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
KIRIBATI
(EVI 64.80 Threshold 33)
5
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
COMOROS
(EVI 59.11 Threshold 33)
6
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
CAPE VERDE
(EVI 55.54 Threshold 33)
7
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
SAINT-LUCIA
(EVI 52.89 Threshold 33)
8
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
SEYCHELLES
(EVI 52.47 Threshold 33)
9
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
ST. KITTS AND NEVIS
(EVI 51.43 Threshold 33)
10
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
(EVI 51.39 Threshold 33)
11
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
DOMINICA
(EVI 50.08 Threshold 33)
12
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
BAHAMAS
(EVI 49.34 Threshold 33)
13
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
TONGA
(EVI 48.48 Threshold 33)
14
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
SOLOMON ISLANDS
(EVI 46.74 Threshold 33)
15
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
VANUATU
(EVI 44.51 Threshold 33)
16
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
GRENADA
(EVI 44.47 Threshold 33)
17
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
(EVI 41.66 Threshold 33)
18
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
SAMOA
(EVI 40.93 Threshold 33)
19
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
(EVI 37.67 Threshold 33)
20
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
FIJI
(EVI 37.21 Threshold 33)
21
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
(EVI 36.12 Threshold 33)
22
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
MAURITIUS
(EVI 34.34 Threshold 33)
23
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
(EVI 34.24 Threshold 33)
24
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
MALDIVES
(EVI 33.57 Threshold 33)
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Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
BARBADOS
(EVI 33.49 Threshold 33)
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Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
JAMAICA
(EVI 31.82 Threshold 33)
27
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
CYPRUS
(EVI 26.95 Threshold 33)
28
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
GUINEA-BISSAU
(EVI 64.64 Threshold 33)
29
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
MALTA
(EVI 36.65 Threshold 33)
30
Components of the Economic Vulnerability Index
SINGAPORE
(EVI 29.15 Threshold 33)
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CAPE VERDE
Low-income criterion (per capita GDP until
2000,per capita GNI in 2003)
Human capital weakness criterion(Human Assets
Index)
Economic vulnerability criterion(Economic
Vulnerability Index)
32
MALDIVES
Low-income criterion (per capita GDP until
2000,per capita GNI in 2003)
Economic vulnerability criterion(Economic
Vulnerability Index)
Human capital weakness criterion(Human Assets
Index)
33
SAMOA
Low-income criterion (per capita GDP until
2000,per capita GNI in 2003)
Human capital weakness criterion(Human Assets
Index)
Economic vulnerability criterion(Economic
Vulnerability Index)
34
VANUATU
Low-income criterion (per capita GDP until
2000,per capita GNI in 2003)
Economic vulnerability criterion(Economic
Vulnerability Index)
Human capital weakness criterion(Human Assets
Index)
35
United Nations Economic Vulnerability Index (2003)
36
Index of instability of agricultural production
(1979-2001)
37
Index of instability of exports of goods and
services (1979-2001)
38
UNCTAD merchandise export concentration index
(2001)