Survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed more than 200,000 people, were 16pc to 17pc more likely to trust other people many years later than those who hadn’t been victims of the disaster, according to research by Eiji Yamamura of Seinan Gakuin University in Japan that was based on surveys conducted from 2000 to 2008. Trust is an important element of economic growth and seems to have been a key factor in the rebuilding of both cities after World War II, Yamamura says.

(Source: The Journal of Socio-Economics)

Published in Dawn, Economic & Business March 16th , 2015

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