This paper analyzes optimal foreign aid policy in a neoclassical framework with a conflict of interest between the …

Despite informality being the norm in conflict-affected countries, most estimates of the impact of conflict on economic … activity rely on formal sector data. Using high-frequency data from Afghanistan, this paper assesses how surges in conflict … and the period of reference is 2012-2016. The results show that an increase in conflict-related casualties has a strong …

Despite informality being the norm in conflict-affected countries, most estimates of the impact of conflict on economic … activity rely on formal sector data. Using high-frequency data from Afghanistan, this paper assesses how surges in conflict … in conflict-related casualties has a strong negative impact on formal economic activity in the following quarter and a …

on 1,511 projects to 50 African countries. We use this database to extend previous research on aid and conflict, which … withdrawals of "traditional" aid no longer induce conflict in the presence of sufficient alternative funding from China. Our … better understand the link between aid and conflict. …

group behaviour by solving the collective action problem. I also sketch a macromodel of drugs production in a conflict …

This paper reviews conflict as one of potential factors that could be incorporated in the identification of least … developed countries (LDCs). It is not clear whether conflict can be considered as a structurally predetermined handicap as those … identified in LDC criteria. More importantly, even if countries may be caught in a conflict trap, adding conflict indicators to …

group behaviour by solving the collective action problem. I also sketch a macromodel of drugs production in a conflict …