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displaced state authorities and promoted the creation of self-governing institutions that embodied local values and openly … state. Our results suggest that community institutions in guerrilla-controlled areas led to enduring land fragmentation and … disengagement with the government. We argue that when non-state actors develop alternative governance institutions, they can lead to …
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of the impact of conflict point to negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth of -12 percent on average over 2011 …-18, resulting in a GDP contraction to about one-third of the 2010 level. In post-conflict simulation scenarios, the growth drivers … stable resolution of the conflict is achieved …
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This paper studies the legacies of wartime institutions, measured as rebelocracy, on the ability of households to cope … heterogeneous impact by the level of rebelocracy. Using a household panel in four conflict regions in Colombia, the estimation …
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Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion has been closely intertwined with economic...
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institutions, natural resource rents cease to have a negative impact on long-term growth. Institutions in resource-based economies …
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natural resources rents may reduce incentives to invest in fiscal capacity. However, political institutions that limit rulers … mainly through institutions that make the tax system accountable and transparent. Thus it is possible to develop both fiscal …
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, with their effectiveness in curbing hostilities being greater in areas where conflict is active closer in time to the …
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This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ("pre-confirmatory bias") and perceptions (confirmatory bias), and are themselves...
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This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet - the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies. The paper...
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of peace and the economics of development has been a major reason why countries relapse into conflict. This paper briefly … consolidate peace and avoid that Liberia relapses into conflict. -- international relations and international political economy … ; conflict ; natural …
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