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Entrepreneurship and violent conflict in developing countries
Brück, Tilman; Naudé, Wim; Verwimp, Philip - 2013
entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the … Journal of Conflict Resolution (2013), devoted to the impact of violent conflict on entrepreneurship in developing countries …. In the overview we start by defining entrepreneurship and conflict, and provide a succinct summary of the existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009718521
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Aid and fragile states
Hoeffler, Anke; Justino, Patricia - 2023
Aid is still an important feature of the development landscape. Fragile states, in particular, have the greatest development needs but due to their poor governance they are the least likely countries to use aid effectively to meet their development challenges. In this paper, we explore which...
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Measuring the business environment for entrepreneurship in fragile states
Guglielmetti, Chiara - 2010
This paper aims towards better understanding the role of entrepreneurship in fragile states, which despite the … formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of entrepreneurship and the business environment, the primary focus in this … entrepreneurship in fragile state. -- entrepreneurship ; development ; fragile states ; institutions ; business ; environment …
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Conflict and entrepreneurial activity in Afghanistan : findings from the national risk vulnerability assessment data
Ciarli, Tommaso; Parto, Saeed; Savona, Maria - 2010
effect of the conflict on entrepreneurship is very small. The results on the control variables suggest that (i) the … generation of entrepreneurship has seen conflict and instability for a whole life,( ii) a small business is a mean of surviving … a priority for internationally supported reconstruction. -- entrepreneurship ; conflict ; Afghanistan ; national risk …
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Entrepreneurial activity and civil war in Colombia : exploring the mutual determinants between armed conflict and the private sector
Rettberg, Beatriz Angelika; Leiteritz, Ralf; Nasi, Carlo - 2010
; entrepreneurship ; private sector ; natural resources ; multinational companies …
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Needs vs expediency : poverty reduction and social development in post-conflict countries
Addison, Tony; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Niño-Zarazúa, … - 2015
Conflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human damage can overwhelm public action, as there are many competing priorities and resources are often insufficient. What then should be the priorities for 'post-conflict' policy?...
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Wartime governance and state-building trajectories in post-conflict societies
Justino, Patricia - 2022
To date, there is limited understanding about the consequences of wartime dynamics for post-war state-building processes. This paper explores one such dynamics-the forms of governance exercised by armed groups during wartime-and proposes a theoretical framework outlining how forms of wartime...
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Conflict and development : recent research advances and future agendas
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Martin-Shields, … - 2017
We survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where academic research has started to establish stylized facts and where methodological and knowledge gaps remain. We focus our review on the role of civilian agency in conflict; on wartime...
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Hidden hostility : donor attention and political violence
Anderson, Siwan; Francois, Patrick; Rohner, Dominic; … - 2022
Political violence is a worldwide problem that has been on the rise over the past decade. The international dimension of domestic repression and dissent is a particularly relevant factor yet surprisingly understudied. In particular, governments that heavily depend on foreign aid may crack down...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013461857
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The international fiscal implications of global poverty reduction and global public goods provision
Fitzgerald, Edmund V. K. - 2013
The mixed record on the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets and the focus on global public goods in post-MDG debates questions the future of traditional development co-operation (official development assistance, ODA). Meanwhile, international financial crisis and fiscal retrenchment...
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