Showing 1 - 10 of 186
analysis of large-scale violent conflict with other forms of violence, instability, fragility, and humanitarian crises. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777138
This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Viet Nam. We … combine high resolution satellite data on deforestation with rich household and commune-level, biannual panel data. We study … deforestation holding constant the average intensive tenure (average share of land held in tenure among those with land title). We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894307
auto theft. Starting in 2014, many municipalities in Brazil increased the monitoring of spare parts sold by junkyards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013419047
This paper discusses global public goods related to the world';s land resources, their current provision and likely future provision, their potential impacts on the world's poorest households, as well as prospects for using foreign assistance to enhance these outcomes. Specifically, the paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192036
Tanzania, Brazil, Guyana, and Indonesia. Some elements of performance-based payments were included, and these agreements and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010210658
that the same logic does not apply to lower-scale group violence such as riots, which differ in such a way that … argument by analysing Muslim-Christian violence in the post-Suharto era, combining a new subnational data set of ethno …-income and ethnogeographic crosscuttingness with a new and comprehensive subnational data set of violence in Indonesia. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568115
development and provides considerable resources to reduce armed conflicts. However, other forms of violence, such as suicide … time, scholars in the field of public health have been arguing for putting selfdirected and interpersonal violence higher … and recipients have so far neither recognized self-directed nor interpersonal violence as a major development issue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372880
The lack of political representation often lies at the origin of identity-based violence, and, when not resolved, can … re-ignite violence. We study who perceives gains and losses in political representation in Rwanda and Burundi and why. We … both countries, we observe a sharp drop in perceived political representation in the run-up to and during violence, and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013461972
experienced cycles of violence between the 1960s and 1980s. Can such violence be explained by legacies of mobilization during … fascism? We study whether and how the Italian fascist experience of the 1920s affected political violence during the 1970s and … regime-predicts neofascist political violence at the provincial level more than 40 years later. New windows of opportunity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014234455
We investigate the impact of childhood exposure to organized criminal violence on sociopolitical attitudes in Mexico … institutions, interpersonal trust, and vote choice. To assess the impact of violence exposure on these attitudes, we construct … confrontations from the municipality where they grew up. Our findings indicate that exposure to both types of violence during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314164