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Nation-Building and Conflict in Modern Africa

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Green, Elliott - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2011

Nation-building has long been seen as an important focus for postcolonial African governments. However, up until now there has been no empirical analysis of either the origins or consequences of these policies. Here we compile an original dataset measuring nine different types of nation-building...

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The Legacy of Historical Conflict Evidence from Africa

Besley, Timothy; Reynal-Querol, Marta - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2012

There is a great deal of interest in the causes and consequences of conflict in Africa, one of the poorest areas of the … world where only modest economic progress has been made. This paper asks whether post-colonial conflict is, at least in part …, a legacy of historical conflict by examining the empirical relationship between conflict in Africa since independence …

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Can Workfare Programs Moderate Violence? Evidence from India

Fetzer, Thiemo - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2014

Governments in conflict torn states scramble for effective policies to persistently reduce levels of violence. This … times of need, may be an effective antidote to shut down an important mechanism that drives conflict. By mitigating adverse …

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Estimating the Peace Dividend:The Impact of Violence on HousePrices in Northern Ireland

Besley, Timothy; Mueller, Hannes - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2009

conflict and peace are treated as a latent state. From this, we are able toconstruct a measure of the discounted number of …

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Soldiers or Bureaucrats?Conflict and the Military’s Role in Policy-Making

Leon, Gabriel - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2009

One of the most striking institutional features of many less developed countries is that their militaries are closely involved in policy-making, potentially having a large impact on economic outcomes. This paper examines the role of the military in setting policy. For this purpose it develops...

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Business and Politics in Early 20th Century Japan

Kimura, Masato; Staden, Peter von - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2002

international human networks, was insufficiently influential to prevent political and military conflict.Peter von Staden's paper …

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The Role of Freedom, Growth and Religion in the Taste for Revolution

MacCulloch, Robert; Pezzini, Silvia - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2002

A fundamental issue for economists is what determines civil conflict. One unsettled question is the relative importance …

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Group Lending Without Joint Liability

Fetzer, Thiemo; Ghatak, Maitreesh; Quidt, Jonathan de - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2013

This paper contrasts individual liability lending with and without groups to joint liability lending. By doing so, we shed light on an apparent shift away from joint liability lending towards individual liability lending by some microfinance institutions First we show that individual lending...

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Can Market Failure Cause Political Failure?

Madhav S, Aney; Ghatak, Maitreesh; Morelli, Massimo - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2011

We study how inefficiencies of market failure may be further amplified by political choices made by interest groups created in the inefficient market. We take an occupational choice framework, where agents are endowed heterogeneously with wealth and talent. In our model, market failure due to...

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Market Structure and Borrower Welfare in Microfinance

Fetzer, Thiemo; Ghatak, Maitreesh; Quidt, Jonathan de - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2012

Motivated by recent controversies surrounding the role of commercial lenders in microfinance, we analyze borrower welfare under different market structures,considering a benevolent non-profit lender, a for-profit monopolist, and a competitive credit market. To understand the magnitude of the...

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