A review of several decades of scholarship on civil war, focusing on the answers to key questions: Why do wars begin …? Who fights? How are armed groups organized? How can we end and prevent internal war? A survey of the growing body of … macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence to assess the impacts of civil war on economic growth worldwide is given. This paper seeks …

of the complex dynamics of civil war economies and has identified areas for policy development critical for improved …

civil war (particularly in Africa) rather than ‘international’ wars. [Discussion Paper No. 2005/05]. …

In southern Nepal, rice straw burning in open fields is common practice. This is problematic because biomass burning …

relatively small (but representative) sample of households residing in the mountainous regions of Nepal (i.e., excluding the low …-lying Terai regions) were surveyed in three successive rounds of the Nepal LSMS corresponding to 1995, 2003 and 2010, while other … is used to investigate the effects of economic growth on firewood collection in Nepal between 1995 and 2010.[BREAD …

This paper examines the sensitivity of rice yield in Nepal to changes in climate variables and the magnitude of …