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of the impact of conflict point to negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth of -12 percent on average over 2011 …-18, resulting in a GDP contraction to about one-third of the 2010 level. In post-conflict simulation scenarios, the growth drivers … stable resolution of the conflict is achieved …
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With more than ten thousand casualties, the 2014 Ukrainian war between pro-Russian separatists and the government in the Donbass region, Ukraine's productive core, has taken a severe toll on the country. Using cross-country panel data over the period 1995-2017, this paper quantifies the...
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Using surveys and administrative data from post-war Liberia, the hypothesis that peacekeeping deployments build peace "from the bottom up" through contributions to local security and local economic and social vitality was tested. The hypothesis reflects official thinking about how peacekeeping...
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aftermath of violent conflict. Our analysis is based on two sources of information: household survey data collected in northern … Uganda for households that were displaced by the civil conflict, and geo-referenced data on armed conflict events, with which … we construct our developed index of recent conflict exposure. We compare households that moved out of camps with those …
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Many Colombians are confronted with the ongoing conflict that influences their decision making in everyday life …, including their behavior in labor markets. This study focuses on the impact of violent conflict on self-employment, enlarging … the usual determinants with a set of conflict variables. In order to estimate the effect of conflict on self …
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strong and durable institutions in client countries. In India's transport sector, the extent to which sustained Institutional … formal and informal interests, incentives, and institutions support or prevent the reforms required for sustainable ID. The …
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This paper discusses and illustrates the analytical foundations of international comparisons (or benchmarking) for assessing a country's potential for improvement along various dimensions of social and economic development. By providing a methodology for international benchmarking, discussing...
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Ethno-Linguistic Affinity, I show that civil conflict in Africa is likely to spill over between contiguous ethno …-linguistically similar countries. -- Ethno-linguistic heterogeneity ; spatial econometrics ; conflict ; Africa …
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Over the past decade, research explaining cross country income differences has increasingly pointed to the dominant role of total factor productivity (TFP) gaps as opposed to factor accumulation. Nevertheless, it is a widely held belief that a country's ability to absorb and implement...
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