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analysis of large-scale violent conflict with other forms of violence, instability, fragility, and humanitarian crises. …
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To date, there is limited understanding about the consequences of wartime dynamics for post-war state … armed groups govern territories and civilians within them-that under certain circumstances may be harnessed in the post-war … the type of statebuilding and political regime trajectories that emerge in the post-war period. …
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What accounts for armed violence in the aftermath of civil war? Efforts to develop a comprehensive framework to …, wartime, and post-war sources of violence in the aftermath of war. This paper focuses on organized political violence after … war and argues that such violence is shaped by a combination of pre-war, wartime, and post-war dynamics. Post-war contexts …
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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 …
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I examine whether and how the means through which a civil war ends affects the success of a country's state … military victory, the coercive balance-of-power at the end of war favourable to the victor enables it to dictate the post … of informal power in the post-war context whose influence is exercised through private networks of party members and …
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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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While much of the literature studies causes and consequences of war, the reverberations of peace have rarely been … information on ceasefires with granular data about violence and economic recovery, allowing us to observe their dynamics at highly … disaggregated levels and in temporal proximity to their entry into force. Overall, ceasefires have a marginal effect on violence …
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Researchers have linked sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) poor growth performance in recent decades to several factors, including geography, institutions, and low returns to investment. This literature has not yet integrated the research that identifies linkages between gender, economic development,...
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This study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic inequality for a set of countries that are less covered in the empirical literature, mostly due to the lack of appropriate data. After discussing the main challenges when...
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In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to higher levels of education (there are 30 times as...
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