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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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Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism : Mali

World Bank - 2013

This assessment of the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML-CFT) regime in Mali was … conducted on the basis of the Forty Recommendations of 2003 and the Nine Special Recommendations on the financing of terrorism … authorities of Mali, as well as the information gathered in the course of the country visit from February 4 to 14, 2008. During …

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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...

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Violence in a post-conflict context : urban poor perceptions from Guatemala

Moser, Caroline O. N. - 2001

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The Toll of War : The Economic and Social Consequences of the Conflict in Syria

World Bank - 2017

The Arab Spring protests marked the beginning of a new era in the Syrian Arab Republic in 2011. Minor public protests began almost immediately after the initial protests in Cairo in January 2011. The first large demonstrations began two months later in March, and the following months saw a...

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Natural Resources and Violent Conflict : Options and Actions

Bannon, Ian - World Bank - 2003

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1. Natural Resources and Conflict: What We Can Do -- 2. The Natural Resource Curse: How Wealth Can -- 3. Who Gets the Money? Reporting Resource Revenues -- 4. Where Did It Come From? Commodity Tracking Systems -- 5....

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

World Bank - 2012

This report presents the results of the study on the demobilization and reinsertion of excombatants from illegal armed groups in Colombia. The report describes and analyzes the Colombian case, compares it with international experience, discusses critical issues of the current program, and...

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Recent Bank Support for Civil Service Reconstruction in Post-conflict Countries

World Bank - 2012

Civil service reconstruction is important in post-conflict countries because conflict erodes institutions and civil service capacity. And because successful reconstruction-in all sectors-requires domestic capacity to implement projects, a weak civil service undermines overall reconstruction...

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Guatemala : Expenditure Reform in a Post-Conflict Country

World Bank - 2013

This report is the third in a series of joint Government-World Bank reviews designed support Guatemala's peace process (See report nos. 15352 and 16392). As this report was under preparation in late 1998, Guatemala faced an emergency caused by Hurricane Mitch and increasing macroeconomic...

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