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government and each of the rebel groups in internal armed conflicts during the post-Cold War period. The results are well in line …
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Using an "event-study" methodology, this paper analyzes the aftermath of civil war in a cross-section of countries. It … aftermath of war, the paper considers a host of social areas represented by basic indicators of economic performance, health and … first compares the post- and pre-war situations and then examines their dynamic trends during the post-conflict period. The …
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No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This paper attempts to fill that void by building on a newly constructed dataset (Binningsbo, Elster, and Gates 2005), which reports the presence of various forms of post-conflict...
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The author provides empirical evidence on the effects of inflation on post-war capital flight flows. He tests the … hypothesis that inflation has a positive additional impact on capital flight flows after war. He uses a new panel dataset of 77 … developing countries, of which 35 experienced at least one episode of war between 1971 and 2000. The author uses a range of …
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In conflict-prone situations, access to markets is necessary to restore economic growth and generate the preconditions for peace and reconstruction. Hence, the rehabilitation of damaged transport infrastructure has emerged as an overarching investment priority among donors and governments. This...
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the occupied areas during the First Indochina War. Difference-in-difference estimation results suggest that school …
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colonizers used the pre-colonial population as an exploitable resource. The intermediating factor between history and current …
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to agglomeration effects: fortune persists for the United States and most of Latin America. Finally extractive …
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This study examines trends in school dropout at the upper secondary education level across Latin America over the past … education across Latin America and suggest implications for focusing the policy agenda. …
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America and the Caribbean. Through a unique dataset, the paper compares 44 leading state companies of the region based on an …
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