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Civil war, sexual violence and HIV infections: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kalonda-Kanyama, Isaac - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) than in non-conflict regions, and that sexual violence and economic …-affected zones than elsewhere in the DRC; (ii) the impact of sexual violence in conflict-affected regions is 55 times greater than on …This paper estimates the effect of conflict and conflict-related vulnerability factors, namely sexual violence and …

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State fragility, rent seeking and lobbying: evidence from African data

Simplice A, Asongu; Oasis, Kodila-Tedika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper assesses the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa using hitherto unexplored variables in the literature. The previously missing dimension of nation building is integrated and the hypothesis of state fragility being a function of rent seeking and/or lobbying by de...

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New Nationalism and Development in Africa: review article

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism again rank high on the agenda of the international academic discussion. A selection of three recent publications demonstrates the advances made in scholarly analysis in the...

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Rise and Demise of Nehruvian Consensus: A Historical Review

Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The scholarly terrain of this article charts a course from the making of Nehruvian consensus to the present times. In the true spirit of a social conciliator, Nehru created a system of governance that eschewed left and right extremism. It is this system that is popularly known as Nehruvian...

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Economic Sanctions and The Sanctions Paradox: A Post-Sample Validation of Daniel Drezner’s Conflict Expectations Model

Hillebrand, Evan; Bervoets, Jeremy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

to test his game-theoretic model—the Conflict Expectations Model--of sanctions behavior. The model purports to help …

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The wrong suspect. An enquiry into the endogeneity of natural resource measures to civil war.

Rigterink, Anouk S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper argues that natural resources in the past have been falsely identified as a cause of civil conflict onset …. The idea that natural resources spur conflict has reached a certain degree of acceptance among scholars and policy makers …

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How Bad Governance Led to Conflict: The Case of Swat, Pakistan

Adnan, Rasool - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The paper presents an alternative narrative to the what led to conflict in the once peaceful Swat Valley in Pakistan …. The widely discussed view has been that Talibanization is what led to the conflict but this paper argues that it was in … fact bad governance over a period of time that led to this conflict by creating an environment where a governance vacuum …

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Nationalism and international trade: theory and evidence

Lan, Xiaohuan; Li, Ben - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper provides an economic framework to analyze the relationship between nationalistic sentiments and international trade. Nationalistic sentiments respond to economic interests, and in particular they vary according to the relative importance of the domestic market to local economies....

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Strategic defense and attack for series and parallel reliability systems: reply to rejoinder

Hausken, Kjell - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Kovenock and Roberson’s (2012ab) replication of Hausken’s (2008a) equations and parameter restrictions do not enhance our insight into the defense and attack of reliability systems. This reply intends to fill the remaining understanding gaps.

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Income shocks and social unrest: theory and evidence

Almer, Christian; Laurent-Lucchetti, Jérémy; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Combining theoretical and empirical work, this paper explores the impact of economic shocks on the incidence of social unrest (i.e., mass demonstrations and violent riots) in autocracies. Our theory predicts negative economic shocks to boost unrest since-in bad times-fighting the regime to...

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