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The impact of conflict and political instability on banking crises in developing countries
Compaoré, Ali; Mlachila, Montfort; Ouedraogo, Rasmane; … - 2020
While there is an extensive literature examining the economic impact of conflict and political instability, surprisingly there have been few studies on their impact on the probability of banking crises. This paper therefore investigates whether rising conflict and political instability globally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251282
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The macroeconomic costs of conflict
Novta, Natalija; Pugacheva, Evgenia - 2020
Macroeconomic costs of conflict are generally very large, with GDP per capita about 28 percent lower ten years after conflict onset. This is overwhelmingly driven by private consumption, which falls by 25 percent ten years after conflict onset. Conflict is also associated with dramatic declines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252077
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Growth Dynamics : The Myth of Economic Recovery
Saxena, Sweta Chaman - 2005
Using panel data for a large number of countries, we find that economic contractions are not followed by offsetting fast recoveries. Trend output lost is not regained, on average. Wars, crises, and other negative shocks lead to absolute divergence and lower long-run growth, whereas we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400694
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Economic Performance Over the Conflict Cycle
Staines, Nicholas - 2004
The paper finds a significant shift in the economic characteristics of civil conflicts during the1990s. Conflicts have become shorter but with more severe contractions and a stronger recovery of growth. The overall length and cost of the conflict cycle has probably declined. The stance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399713
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Tackling legal impediments to women's economic empowerment
Christopherson, Katharine; Yiadom, Audrey; Johnson, … - 2022
It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries' domestic laws have prevented women from … reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women's economic participation, and removal of these impediments through legal … reform has been shown to be an effective method to catalyze greater participation of women in the economy-along with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170246
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What is driving women's financial inclusion across countries?
Deléchat, Corinne; Newiak, Monique; Xu, Rui; Yang, Fan; … - 2018
financial inclusion-in general, and for women in particular. We find that structural country characteristics, such as resource …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011809550
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Breaking the curse of Sisyphus : an empirical analysis of post-conflict economic transitions
Cevik, Serhan; Rahmati, Mohammad - 2013
world during the period 1960?2010, using a dynamic panel estimation approach based on the system-generalized method of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009706767
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Building statistical capacity in fragile and conflict-affected states
Medina Cas, Stephanie; Alem, Yasmin; Shirakawa, Jacinta … - 2022
Based on internal data, this paper finds that the capacity development program of the IMF's Statistics Department has prioritized technical assistance and training to fragile and conflict-affected states. These interventions have yielded only slightly weaker results in fragile states than in...
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The economic consequences of conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
Fang, Xiangming; Kothari, Siddharth; McLoughlin, Cameron; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392097
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The fiscal cost of conflict : evidence from Afghanistan 2005-2016
Barrett, Philip - 2018
I use a monthly panel of provincially-collected central government revenues and conflict fatalities to estimate government revenues lost due to conflict in Afghanistan since 2005. I identify causal effects by instrumenting for conflict using pre-sample ethno-linguistic share. Headline estimates...
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