policies that promote growth and reduce poverty in developing countries. In this paper, policies for post-conflict and resource …

Committee for Development Policy on climate change, conflict and other issues related to the review of the criteria for the …

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 …

Lack of growth limits poverty reduction while poverty increases conflict risk. Institutional failure and other factors … seem to cause both growth failure and civil war. The greed explanation for conflict is common in cross-country econometric … conflict onset works through other mechanisms, such as a weakening social contract and withering state capacity. The grievance …