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Civic legacies of wartime governance
Justino, Patricia; Stojetz, Wolfgang - 2019
In conflict zones around the world, both state and non-state actors deliver governance at local levels. This paper …
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Conflict and development : recent research advances and future agendas
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Martin-Shields, … - 2017
We survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where academic research has started to establish stylized facts and where methodological and knowledge gaps remain. We focus our review on the role of civilian agency in conflict; on wartime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777138
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Needs vs expediency : poverty reduction and social development in post-conflict countries
Addison, Tony; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Niño-Zarazúa, … - 2015
Conflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human damage can overwhelm public action, as there are many competing priorities and resources are often insufficient. What then should be the priorities for 'post-conflict' policy?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316660
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Wartime governance and state-building trajectories in post-conflict societies
Justino, Patricia - 2022
wars. Six possible trajectories are mapped out: stable democracy, weak democracy, stable autocracy, fragmented rule …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191466
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Does aid support democracy? : a systematic review of the literature
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; … - 2021
aid generally supports rather than hinders democracy building around the world; ii) aid modalities influence the … literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors … most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422978
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Civil wars and stumbling of patriarchal societies : the reconstruction of gender relations in post-conflict Liberia
Larmin, Augustine T.; Banini, Daniel Kofi - 2022
This research project traces how women's participation in the Liberian civil wars, as combatants and peace agents, reconstructs gender relations in the post-civil war context. The current literature examines the role of women in the governance of rebel groups, emphasizing how women operate...
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The incursion of Leviathan: wartime territorial control and post-conflict state capacity in Peru
Kreiman, Guillermo - 2022
How do civil war dynamics affect state-building decisions in the aftermath of conflict? This paper argues that, in the post-conflict period, the state focuses its efforts to build state capacity on areas in which state power has been eroded during wartime, with the goal of avoiding future...
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Impact of post-conflict development interventions on maternal healthcare utilization
Badiuzzaman, Muhammad; Murshed, Syed Mansoob - 2016
We evaluate the effectiveness of a post-conflict development programme on maternal health-care utilization in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Our work varies from conventional impact evaluation studies because of the inclusion of two post-conflict psychosocial risks: the household's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489250
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The economic legacy of civil war : firm level evidence from Sierra Leone
Collier, Paul; Duponchel, Marguerite - 2010
data from the World Bank 2007 Employers Survey. The proposed theory is that during the conflict, violence affects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662169
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Between victory and statehood : armed violence in post-war Abkhazia
Shesterinina, Anastasia - 2022
What accounts for armed violence in the aftermath of civil war? Efforts to develop a comprehensive framework to understand this phenomenon have been made in the literature. Yet existing studies have in general looked at distinct pre-war, wartime, and post-war sources of violence in the aftermath...
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