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The main focus of this paper is on the process and progress of economic reform in Russia. But I start with four historical questions that bear on the current situation. How advanced was Russia in 1913? What relevance, if any, does the New Economic Policy of the 19205, or NEP, have for the...
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It has been difficult to open up the black box of knowledge production. We use unique international data on the publications, citations, and affiliations of mathematicians to examine the impact of a large post-1992 influx of Soviet mathematicians on the productivity of their American...
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System. Comparing to those in other duties around the world, deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan increases the odds of developing … on the service, compared to a tour under 120 days. For Army and Navy, a deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan further …
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This study explores the consequences and origins of between-ethnicity economic inequality both across and within countries. First, combining satellite images of nighttime luminosity with the historical homelands of ethnolinguistic groups we construct measures of ethnic inequality for a large...
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extent, Afghanistan has successfully managed the immediate challenges resulting from the transition. It has maintained …
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The Afghanistan Development Update is a twice-annual publication providing analysis of recent developments and … topics address: i) the potential for trade to underpin development in Afghanistan; ii) recent trends in poverty and welfare …; and iii) priorities for improving education quality and coverage. Afghanistan has experienced slow growth since 2014, with …
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Afghanistan faced severe economic headwinds in 2018, with the economy growing by an estimated 1.8 percent. Slow growth …
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Afghanistan currently faces a sea of uncertainty. Outcomes of the September 2019 presidential elections are not yet …
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Poor program can lift households out of poverty in a fragile context: Afghanistan. In 80 villages in Balkh province, 1 … impacts, the intervention has an estimated internal rate of return of 26 percent, excluding non-monetized improvements in …
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As of this writing, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are in their eighth and tenth years, having accrued nearly a …
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