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Peace, terrorism, or civil conflict? : understanding the decision of an opposition group

Jetter, Michael - 2016

When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …

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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature

Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023

We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect … conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the … empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict shows that none of the previous studies proposes a compelling …

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Occupational choice of skilled workers in the presence of a large development sector: Evidence from Sierra Leone

Harris, Jamelia - 2019

Using data from Sierra Leone, I explore the role of cognitive ability in sorting across sectors and the importance of perceptions in the employment decision-making process. Crucial to the analysis is the introduction of the aid-industry/development sector as a 'third sector', which is shown to...

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Foreign aid in dangerous places: The donors and Mali's democracy

van de Walle, Nicolas - 2012

Mali long seemed a model, low-income democracy. Yet, in a few short weeks in early 2012, more than half of the territory came under the military control of an Islamist secessionist movement, and a military coup deposed the democratically-elected government in the capital. Given the substantial...

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Ethnic fragmentation, conflict, displaced persons and human trafficking : an empirical analysis

Akee, Randall; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H. - 2010

fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements. -- ethnic fragmentation … ; conflict ; displaced persons ; human trafficking …

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Impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Sierra Leone: Empirical analysis

Kargbo, Philip Michael - 2012

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Sierra Leone, a country where an empirical econometric study on aid effectiveness is yet to exist. Using a triangulation of approaches involving the ARDL bounds test approach and the Johansen maximum likelihood approach to...

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The real exchange rate, foreign aid and macroeconomic transmission mechanisms in Tanzania and Ghana

Juselius, Katarina; Reshid, Adbulaziz; Tarp, Finn - 2013

A recent study of 36 sub-Saharan African countries found a positive impact of aid in the absolute majority of these countries. However, for Tanzania and Ghana, two major aid recipients, aid did not seem to have been equally beneficial. This paper singles out these two countries for a more...

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Aid and income: Another time-series perspective

Lof, Matthijs; Mekasha, Tseday Jemaneh; Tarp, Finn - 2013

In a recent article, Nowak-Lehmann, Dreher, Herzer, Klasen, and Martínez-Zarzoso (2012) (henceforth NDHKM) conclude that foreign aid has not had a significant effect on income, based on evidence from panel data potentially covering 131 countries over the period 1960-2006. The present study...

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The long-run impact of foreign aid in 36 African countries: Insights from multivariate time series analysis

Juselius, Katarina; Framroze Møller, Niels; Tarp, Finn - 2011

Studies of aid effectiveness abound in the literature, often with opposing conclusions. Since most time-series studies use data from the exact same publicly available data bases, our claim here is that such differences in results must be due to the use of different econometric models and...

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Does foreign aid promote democracy? Aid, democracy, and instability from trade

Kangoye, Thierry - 2011

This study revisits the effect of aid on the quality of institutions and examines the effects of a major source of instability, namely terms-of-trade instability, on the quality of democracy. We take advantage of previous empirical findings which explain the role of aid in mitigating the adverse...

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