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Empowerment and local level conflict mediation in Indonesia : a comparative analysis of concepts, measures, and project efficacy

Gibson, Christopher - 2005

marginalized groups) through building their capacity to manage local conflict. Although the project induces conflict through its … manage local conflict. They discuss the interdependencies of two major analytical realms-routines of inter …-group collaboration, and sources of countervailing power-and their relation to local conflict processes and outcomes. "--World Bank web …

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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 … at youth and young men in particular in two countries emerging from years of ethnic conflict, with a view to identifying …

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The business of product innovation : international empirical evidence

Lederman, Daniel - 2009

"It is so widely recognized that innovation is a key driver of economic growth that it is cliche to say so. This article studies product innovation by firms with data from 68 countries, covering more than 25,000 firms in eight manufacturing sectors. The author assesses the predictions of...

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Natural disasters and human capital accumulation

Crespo-Cuaresma, Jesús - 2009

"The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although the results in the empirical literature tend to be inconclusive, using model averaging methods in the framework of cross-country and panel regressions, this paper finds an...

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Natural disasters and the dynamics of intangible assets

López, Ramón - 2009

"Empirical evidence suggests that the higher-order effects of natural disasters, which affect intangible assets, may be even more important than the material inter-industry effects. However, most existing general equilibrium models ignore higher order effects concerning human capital. Moreover,...

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Estimates of government net capital stocks for 26 developing countries, 1970-2002

Hurlin, Christophe - 2006

"The authors provide various estimates of the government net capital stocks for a panel of 26 developing countries over the period 1970-2001. Two kinds of internationally comparable series of public capital stocks are presented. The first estimates are based on the standard perpetual inventory...

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Cross-country empirical studies of systemic bank distress : a survey

Demirguç-Kunt, Asli - 2005

"A rapidly growing empirical literature is studying the causes and consequences of bank fragility in contemporary economies. The authors reviews the two basic methodologies adopted in cross-country empirical studies-the signals approach and the multivariate probability model-and their...

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Insurance and liquidity : panel evidence

Shankar, Rashmi - 2005

"The author presents evidence that balance sheet effects are critical determinants of both the likelihood of a crisis and of income losses following a crisis. She tests the validity of "insurance" and "liquidity" models of currency crisis. Both models predict that the occurrence of a balance of...

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Learning-by-doing, learning-by-exporting, and productivity : evidence from Colombia

Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2005

"The empirical evidence on whether participation in export markets increases plant-level productivity has been inconclusive so far. The authors explain this inconclusiveness by drawing on Arrow's (1962) characterization of learning-by-doing, which suggests focusing on young plants and using...

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Access to capital in rural Thailand : An estimated model of formal versus informal credit

Gine, Xavier - 2005

"The aim of this paper is to understand the mechanism underlying access to credit. Gine focuses on two important aspects of rural credit markets in Thailand. First, moneylenders and other informal lenders coexist with formal lending institutions such as government or commercial banks, and more...

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