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The share of people living in extreme poverty fell from 36 percent in 1990 to 10 percent in 2015 but has continued to increase in many fragile and conflict-affected areas where half of the extreme poor are expected to reside by 2030. These areas are also where the least evidence exists on how to...
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Using surveys and administrative data from post-war Liberia, the hypothesis that peacekeeping deployments build peace "from the bottom up" through contributions to local security and local economic and social vitality was tested. The hypothesis reflects official thinking about how peacekeeping...
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fragility, conflict and violence, entrepreneurs of small and medium-size experience chronic stress and poor mental health on a … small and medium-size enterprise entrepreneurs in conflict-affected parts of Pakistan. Entrepreneurs in the treatment group …
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medium-size enterprises in fragile, conflict, and violence-affected contexts. It identifies potentially promising, scalable … of regular business-related entrepreneurial stressors with the uncertainties of a fragile, conflict, and violence … income in fragile, conflict, and violence-affected contexts, future research might benefit from evaluating whether the …
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Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women in conflict and non-conflict settings, but … in conflict settings it often receives less attention than other forms of gender-based violence, such as conflict …-related sexual violence. Using data from the 2008 and 2013 Domestic Violence module of the Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey …
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This paper analyzes the magnitude and predictors of misreporting on intimate partner and sexual violence in Nigeria and … face-to-face method. In Rwanda, intimate partner violence rates increase by 100 percent, and in Nigeria, they increase by … violence and biased correlations and treatment effect estimates …
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Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women in conflict and non-conflict settings, but … in conflict settings it often receives less attention than other forms of gender-based violence, such as conflict …-related sexual violence. Using data from the 2008 and 2013 Domestic Violence module of the Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey …
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