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Local conflict in Indonesia : measuring incidence and identifying patterns
Pradhan, Menno - 2004
"The widespread presence of local conflict characterizes many developing countries such as Indonesia. Outbreaks of violent conflict not only have direct costs for lives, livelihoods, and material property, but may also have the potential to escalate further. Recent studies on large-scale...
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Local Conflict in Indonesia : Incidence and Patterns
World Bank - 2012
Major intrastate conflicts, such as civil wars, and the resulting set-backs for economic and political development, have received increasing research attention in recent years. A growing literature has sought to investigate conditions that affect the probability of countries experiencing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012556357
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Voices of Youth in Post-Conflict Burundi : Perspectives on Exclusion, Gender, and Conflict
World Bank - 2013
This report examines youth in post-conflict Burundi. The research responds to the nascent but growing body of knowledge on conflict, young men and gender. War and violence have devastated societies and economies throughout Africa with young men being the main perpetrators of this violence. This...
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Energy efficiency : lessons learned from success stories
Stuggins, Gary - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393848
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Competition and performance in the Polish second pillar
Rudolph, Heinz P. - 2007
This paper provides an assessment of the Polish funded pension system and the quality of the regulatory framework for the accumulation phase. There are two elements that distinguish the Polish pension fund portfolios from other reforming countries': the relatively high component of domestic...
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A firm-level analysis of small and medium size enterprise financing in Poland
Klapper, Leora - 2006
"The authors test competing theories of capital structure choices using firm-level data on firm borrowings. The majority of firms in the dataset are privately owned, young, micro or small and medium enterprise (SME) firms concentrated in the service sector. In general, the financing pattern of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522078
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Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management : the Warta River Basin, Poland
Blomquist, William Andrew - 2005
"The authors describe and analyze the emergence of river basin management in the Warta River Basin of Poland. The Warta … basin's 55,193 km2 cover approximately one-sixth of Poland, and the Warta is a principal tributary to the Oder. Water … management in Poland have been earnest, but the dispersion of water policy authority across several levels of government, the …
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Economic growth, income distribution, and poverty in Poland during transition
Verbeek, Jos - 2004
, their movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of … environment and the economic growth variables show a relatively sizable degree of variance. In addition, Poland has struggled in … the past few years to reduce poverty while still experiencing positive economic growth. The authors show that in Poland …
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Poland's labor market : the challenge of job creation
2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524134