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WATER-Model: An Optimal Allocation of Water Resources in Turkey, Syria and Iraq

Oei, Pao-Yu; Siehlow, Markus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

Political instability of several countries in the Middle East is overshadowing one of the biggest challenges of the upcoming century: Water - a natural resource that is easily taken for granted, but whose scarcity might lead to serious conflicts. This paper investigates an optimal Water...

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Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys

Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …

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The Influence of Conflict on the Demand for Education in the Basque Region

Groot, Olaf J. de; Göksel, Idil - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

It has previously been shown that civil conflict influences many economic factors, including education, which play an … important role in development and economic growth. Previous authors working on the influence of conflict on education have …, however, always focused strongly on the supply-side effects, whereas this paper examines the influence of conflict on the …

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On the Interaction between Fear and Hatred

Murshed, Syed Mansoob - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

This paper models conflictual interaction between a European state and a domestic dissident immigrant minority group, Muslims say, some of whom may resort to acts of terrorism. Here, identity is crucial and provides the micro-foundations of dissident behaviour by solving the collective action...

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Threat Perceptions in Europe: Domestic Terrorism and International Crime

Murshed, Syed Mansoob - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

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

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Determinants of Protests: Longitudinal Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper is the first study that analyzes the drivers of political protest using longitudinal data from a critical revolution that changed -at least temporarily- the political landscape in a transition country. We make use of a rich dataset consisting of panel data collected before and after...

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Movers or Stayers? Understanding the Drivers of IDP Camp Decongestion during Post-Conflict Recovery in Uganda

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Muhumuza, Tony - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

aftermath of violent conflict. Our analysis is based on two sources of information: household survey data collected in northern … Uganda for households that were displaced by the civil conflict, and geo-referenced data on armed conflict events, with which … we construct our developed index of recent conflict exposure. We compare households that moved out of camps with those …

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Terror and the Costs of Crime

Gould, Eric D.; Stecklov, Guy - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

This paper argues that terrorism, beyond its immediate impact on innocent victims, also raises the costs of crime, and therefore, imposes a negative externality on potential criminals. Terrorism raises the costs of crime through two channels: (i) by increasing the presence and activity of the...

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Corruption, Growth, and the Environment: A Cross-Country Analysis

Welsch, Heinz - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

The relationship between per capita income and a number of pollution indicators has been found to display an inverted U-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given income levels (direct effect) and by reducing...

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Remittances and Children's Capabilities: New Evidence from Kyrgyzstan, 2005-2008

Kröger, Antje; Anderson, Kathryn - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

The Kyrgyz Republic is one of the largest recipients of international remittances in the world; from a Balance of Payments measure of remittances, it ranked tenth in the world in 2008 in the ratio of remittances to GDP, a rapid increase from 30th place in 2004. Remittances can be used to maintain...

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