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Colombia - Peace Programmatic I : Demobilization and Reinsertion of Ex-Combatants in Colombia

World Bank - 2012

conflict to peace: prevention, demobilization, reinsertion, reintegration, and reconciliation. This framework together with …

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Elections, special interests, and the fiscal costs of financial crisis

Keefer, Philip - 2004

"Keefer proposes a new approach to explain why the costs of crisis are greater in some countries than in others. He begins with the premise that many crises result from the willingness of politicians to cater to special interests at the expense of broad social interests. A parsimonious model...

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A curse of comparison? : Evidence on reference groups for relative income concerns

Kuegler, Alice - 2009

"This paper proposes that individuals care about the relative income of proximate reference groups. Making use of self …-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a … reference point for new sample data from Venezuela. Having greater perceived income than one's siblings is found to be …

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Transactional sex as a response to risk in Western Kenya

Robinson, Jonathan - 2009

"Formal and informal commercial sex work is a way of life for many poor women in developing countries. Though sex workers have long been identified as crucial in affecting the spread of HIV/AIDS, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, the nature of sex-for-money transactions remains poorly...

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