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Ethnic Fragmentation, Conflict, Displaced Persons and Human Trafficking : An Empirical Analysis
Akee, Randall - 2010
fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138737
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Diversity and Conflict
Arbatli, Cemal Eren - 2018
This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920431
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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119295
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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
Dreher, Axel - 2010
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146478
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Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021
We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325086
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988126
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Money Can't Buy Love But Can it Buy Peace? Evidence from the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation
Brück, Tilman - 2014
In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046661
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Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys
Brück, Tilman - 2010
, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139963
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Economics of Civil Conflict : Evidence from the Punjab Insurgency
Singh, Prakarsh - 2016
the economic causes and consequences of the conflict in Punjab, which has been classified as a civil war and also an …. Finally, I consider the macro and microeconomic effects of the conflict in Punjab that affected every walk of life and perhaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978154
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Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2014
, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social … gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b) dampening religious or racial conflict over symbolic and normative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058747