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Voices of Youth in Post-Conflict Burundi : Perspectives on Exclusion, Gender, and Conflict
World Bank - 2013
on conflict, young men and gender. War and violence have devastated societies and economies throughout Africa with young … if gender norms may increase the risk of renewed conflict. Specific objectives of the research in Burundi were to examine … how poor and excluded youth are faring and coping in the country's post-conflict environment; how gender dynamics are …
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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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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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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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Losing the Gains of the Past : The Welfare and Distributional Impacts of the Twin Crises of 2014 in Iraq
World Bank - 2015
Iraq was plunged into two simultaneous crises in the second half of 2014, one driven by a sharp decline in oil prices, the other, by Islamic State militants. Since June 2014, crude oil prices per barrel have fallen from around 112 USD to 97 USD in September and 62 USD by December. Given Iraq's...
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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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World development report 2011 : conflict, security, and development
World Bank - 2011
The World Development Report 2011 on conflict, security and development will look at conflict as a challenge to economic development. It will analyze the nature, causes and development consequences of modern violence and highlight lessons learned from efforts to prevent or recover from violence....
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Conflict in Somalia : Drivers and Dynamics
World Bank - 2012
also played a role in managing, ending, or preventing war. For instance, clannism and clan cleavages are a source of … predation. Economic interests, too, have had an ambiguous relationship with conflict in Somalia. In some places, war economies …
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Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction
World Bank - 2012
former fighters and technocrats who sat out the war in relative comfort abroad. …
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