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This paper reviews the literature on the development consequences of internal armed conflict and state fragility and …/Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO) Armed Conflict Data (ACD), and World Bank state fragility assessments. Our main focus is on a … into the effect of conflict and fragility on growth, human rights abuses, and democratization. The author analyze these …
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Eruptions of Popular Anger: The Economics of the Arab Spring and Its Aftermath sets out to answerthree puzzles-the "Arab inequality" puzzle of civil uprisings in countries with low-to-moderateand stagnant economic inequality, the "unhappy development" paradox of increasing dissatisfactionat a...
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decade. As the decade-long conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic created new challenges and worsened the existing ones … advanced economies in the world. The Fallout of War: The Regional Consequences of the Conflict in Syria identifies the impact … of the Syrian conflict on economic and social outcomes in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon. It combines a large number of data …
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world. The conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic has contributed to the region's challenges, but the region's problems have …
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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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This paper uses Synthetic Control Methodology to estimate the output loss in Tunisia as a result of the "Arab Spring." The results suggest that the loss was 5.5 percent, 5.1 percent, and 6.4 percent of GDP in 2011, 2012, and 2013 respectively. These findings are robust to a series of tests,...
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exposure to civil conflict by the time of the survey. The study measures individual risk preferences using hypothetical lottery …
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In conflict-prone situations, access to markets is necessary to restore economic growth and generate the preconditions … conflict on welfare and on the economic impact of transport infrastructure. The theoretical model explores how transport … infrastructure affects conflict incidence and welfare when selection into rebel groups is endogenous. The implications of the model …
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This paper studies welfare dynamics, especially changes associated with middle-class status in countries in the Middle East and North Africa, before and after the Arab Spring transitions, using objective and subjective welfare measures. Absent panel data, the analysis employs state-of-the-art...
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In the wake of the revolution, Tunisian society is currently undergoing a significant transformation. In late 2011, the country's first representative government in more than three decades was formed, as the Constituent Assembly was seated. Hundreds of legitimate candidates ran in an election...
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