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of the impact of conflict point to negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth of -12 percent on average over 2011 …-18, resulting in a GDP contraction to about one-third of the 2010 level. In post-conflict simulation scenarios, the growth drivers … stable resolution of the conflict is achieved …
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Using surveys and administrative data from post-war Liberia, the hypothesis that peacekeeping deployments build peace "from the bottom up" through contributions to local security and local economic and social vitality was tested. The hypothesis reflects official thinking about how peacekeeping...
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This paper discusses and illustrates the analytical foundations of international comparisons (or benchmarking) for assessing a country's potential for improvement along various dimensions of social and economic development. By providing a methodology for international benchmarking, discussing...
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What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...
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Emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) weathered the 2009 global recession relatively well. However, the impact of the global recession varied across economies. EMDEs with stronger pre-crisis fundamentals - such as large foreign exchange reserves, sound fiscal positions, and low...
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Economic Complexity is a set of network-based and algorithmic methods for the study of economic development and competitiveness. In this framework, Economic Fitness is an innovative approach that improves the mathematical and conceptual scheme. For convenience, these methods were originally...
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adoption of two different types of participatory governance institutions influences municipal tax collection in Brazil …. Municipalities that voluntarily adopt participatory institutions collect significantly higher levels of taxes than similar … municipalities without these institutions. The paper provides evidence that moves scholarship on tax compliance beyond enforcement …
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have been cited as a contributing factor. To explore whether religion itself is associated with differences in sanitation …-representative data sets from India. Across all three data sets, the unconditional religion-specific gap in latrine ownership and latrine …. Further, the estimates do not show evidence of religion-specific differences in other sanitation practices, such as …
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of these variables in conflict-afflicted economies with economies that did not experience social conflict. The analyses … cover episodes of conflict from around the world and study the evolution of these variables during the five years prior to … and five years after the onset of conflicts. Further, four alternative definitions of social conflict are used to …
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-being for 118 countries from 2007 to 2014-a period during which nonviolent conflict became increasingly prevalent-the study …
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