No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This … reports the presence of various forms of post-conflict justice efforts (trials, purges, reparation to victims, and truth … commissions) as well as processes associated with abstaining from post-conflict justice (amnesty and exile). It investigates the …

The developing world is experiencing substantial environmental change, and climate change is likely to accelerate these … processes in the coming decades. Due to their initial poverty, and their relatively high dependence on environmental capital for …. Economic growth is essential for any large-scale poverty reduction. Green growth, a growth process that is sensitive to …

Millennium Development Goals set the stage for global support of ambitious development goals behind which the world must rally … mobilized if the world is to succeed in meeting its targets. Thus, the potential for Islamic finance to play a role in …

. Further, there is now a consensus on adopting more ambitious goals on poverty reduction. Defining social protection as a … collection of programs that address risk, vulnerability, inequality and poverty through a system of transfers in cash or in kind … an empirical overview of social protection around the world based on the World Bank's Atlas of Social Protection …

the welfare of a society. Given the number of societies that are infected with political conflict and, as a result, lower … conflict. The key idea is that expressively motivated group members may create incentives for instrumentally motivated group … leaders such that it leads them to choose conflict rather than compromise. Nonetheless, it is not argued that such a peace is …

Violent conflict is a pervasive feature of the recent global landscape which has lasting impacts on human capital and … their demographic profiles and traditional gender roles. To date, attention to the gender impacts of conflict has focused … evidence is organized using a framework that identifies both the differential impacts of violent conflict on males and females …

developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

points to the dominant role of Asia in accounting for the bulk of the world's poverty reduction since 1981. The evolution of …, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the … negative correlations between both poverty and inequality indices, on the one hand, and mean income per capita on the other. It …

This paper proposes a new method for ex ante analysis of the poverty impacts arising from policy reforms. Three … innovation, which is the establishment of a unique poverty level of utility and an appropriately modified set of Foster …-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures. With these tools in hand, the authors are able to calculate the change in the head-count of poverty, poverty …