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State-building through neotrusteeship : Kosovo and East Timor in comparative perspective
Howard, Lise Morjé - 2013
operations. However, they have had divergent results in post-conflict state-building: While the state and economy are gradually …
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Intervention, aid, and institution-building in Iraq and Afghanistan : a review and critique of comparative lessons
Monten, Jonathan - 2013
Since 2001 international attention has focused on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and specifically on the … democracies. Despite their differences, Iraq and Afghanistan are often considered together in analyses of state-building, and … multiple observers have explored the lessons of one for the other. Yet Iraq and Afghanistan are not the first cases of US …
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Transitional justice and aid
Hellsten, Sirkku - 2012
This paper examines the current security-governance-development nexus, something that is often also discussed under the concept of "transitional justice" (TJ). The paper analyses how the ambiguous, evolving and expanding nature of the concept of TJ affects the planning, coordination, evaluation...
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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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Alternatives to local content
Kolstad, Ivar; Kinyondo, Abel - 2015
This paper suggests that an optimal local content policy in the context of flawed institutions is a more minimal one than those typically pursued by developing countries with recently discovered petroleum reserves. We argue that local content requirements need to be seen as a public expenditure...
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Sell the oil deposits! : a financial proposal to keep the oil underground in the Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
Bucaram, Santiago; Fernandez, Mario Andrés; Grijalva, Diego - 2016
The Yasuni National Park is a protected area located in the Amazon region of Ecuador and is recognized as one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. In recent years the park has received much attention due to the media exposure of the Yasuni-ITT Initiative. This Initiative proposed a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447387
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The political economy of energy transitions and thermal energy poverty : comparing the residential LPG sectors in Indonesia and South Africa
Kruger, Johannes; Tait, Louise; Groot, Jiska de - Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis - 2016
Indonesia and South Africa are both trying address energy poverty through subsidized energy provision. South Africa has implemented one of the largest electrification programmes in the world, and 80 per cent of the population now have access to the national grid. But this alone is unlikely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477370
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Countering global oil theft : responses and solutions
Romsom, Etienne - 2022
This second of two papers on global oil theft discusses ways to reduce oil theft, misappropriation, and fraud. At US$133 billion per year, oil is the largest stolen natural resource globally, while fuel is the most smuggled natural resource. Oil theft equates to 5-7 per cent of the global market...
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