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Gates, Scott - 2010

This paper reviews the literature on the development consequences of internal armed conflict and state fragility and analyzes the relationship using data from World Development Indicators, Ukraine Corporate Development Project UCDP/Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO) Armed Conflict Data...

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Subjective well-being and peaceful uprisings

Hamilton, Kirk; Naikal, Esther; Lange, Glenn-Marie - 2019

This study analyzes whether subjective well-being measures can explain variation in peaceful uprisings, in addition to the objective measures typically used in analyses of this type of events. Using data on uprisings and subjective well-being for 118 countries from 2007 to 2014-a period during...

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The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Jakiela, Pamela - 2015

This study estimates the impact of Kenya's post-election violence on individual risk preferences. Because the crisis …

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Middle East and North Africa Economic Monitor October 2015 : Inequality, Uprisings, and Conflict in the Arab World

Lanchovichina, Elena - 2015 - Online-Ausg.

The economic outlook for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2015 is slightly more favorable than in 2013-14, when the region as a whole grew at 3 percent a year. The World Bank group's latest MENA Economic Monitor projects MENA's economic growth to average 5.2 percent in 2015...

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Justice, Conflict and Development

Jensen, Erik - 2011

Access to justice is a 'big tent' for law programs broadly writ and has been so for over 25 years. Traditionally, access to justice has been treated as a category of interventions rather than a heuristic device from which to learn and experiment. In the old, old days, access to justice meant...

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Peacekeeping and development in fragile states : micro-level evidence from Liberia

Mvukiyehe, Eric; Samii, Cyrus - 2018

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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Identification for Development : Kenya

World Bank Group - 2016

least ten of the other SDGs. This assessment of Kenya's ID system was undertaken under the umbrella of the World Bank … also financing the Kenya Transparency and Communications Infrastructure (KTCIP) project to scale up digital inclusion and e … Kenya May 18-28. Its broad objective was to better understand the nature and capabilities of Kenya's ID system, its role in …

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Kenya Economic Update, December 2017 : Poised to Bounce Back?

World Bank Group - 2017

This is a critical time for Kenya, as the incoming administrations at national and devolved levels face the high …. This sixteenth edition of the Kenya economic update seeks to contribute to the policy discourse on pertinent economic … edition of the Kenya Economic Update, identifying opportunities for the consolidation of the fiscal stance, both from an …

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Kenya Economic Update, April 2018, No. 17 : Policy Options to Advance the Big 4

World Bank Group (contributor) - World Bank Group - 2018

After multiple headwinds dampened growth in 2017, a nascent rebound in economic activity in Kenya is gaining momentum …. Notwithstanding the projected rebound in economic activity risks are tilted to the downside. The Government of Kenya has outlined four … resources to agriculture and improving the efficiency of current spending in the sector. To eradicate poverty by 2030, Kenya …

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Kenya Economic Update, October 2018 : In Search of Fiscal Space

World Bank Group - 2018

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