-driven development programme in Afghanistan that created democratic village councils and funded small-scale development projects. Using a …

The paper examines the relationship between conflict and entrepreneurial activity in Afghanistan, drawing upon a unique … data set, the National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment household survey 2005. Afghanistan is severely underdeveloped and … poor. Conflict has persisted in vast swathes of the country for decades, so that Afghanistan may be more appropriately …

A common finding in the empirical civil war literature is that population size and per capita income are highly … significant predictors of civil war incidence and onset. This paper shows that the common finding of population size and per … capita income having a significant average effect on civil war risk in a world sample breaks down once countryand year …

How do production firms adapt to civil war? The answer to this question will inform the potential for economic … country’s civil war to argue that successful wartime firms continually adapt their supply chain structures in response to a …-level explanation for, and also a conditioning of, the generally accepted view that industries that survive civil war tend to be non …

This paper challenges the idea that farmers revert to subsistence farming when confronted with violence from civil war …. Macro-economic evidence on economic legacies of civil war suggests that civil wars, while obviously disastrous in the short …