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Using unique household level data collected in northern Mali in August and September 2015, this paper explores whether the content of the 2015 Peace Accord reflects the concerns and priorities of the citizens, local leaders, and refugees, or whether it is an exclusive agreement between elites...
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The Timor Leste secession conflict lasted for 25 years. Its last wave of violence in 1999, following the withdrawal of Indonesian troops, generated massive displacement and destruction with widespread consequences for the economic and social development of the country. This paper analyzes the...
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The High Frequency South Sudan Survey, implemented by the South Sudan National Bureau of Statistics in collaboration … and 2017. These surveys provided a long overdue update to poverty numbers in South Sudan, with the previous national … South Sudan, utilizing the Rapid Consumption Methodology combined with geo-spatial data for inaccessible survey areas …
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markets across South Sudan. The analysis reveals that markets in South Sudan are highly segmented. Price differences for … substantially following the imposition of the trade restrictions with Sudan. This increase tends to hurt disproportionately the poor …
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paper evaluates one such program in Sudan to answer the question: Can the international community change the grassroots …
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Improvements in infrastructure across Sudan in recent years have contributed 1.7 percentage points to the country's per … other sector to growth in Sudan. Raising the infrastructure endowment of all parts of Sudan to that of the region's best … performer -- Mauritius -- could boost annual growth by about 3.5 percentage points. Sudan has heavily invested in infrastructure …
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Newly independent South Sudan faces a challenge in making its own way in infrastructure development. Despite earning $6 … billion in oil revenues since 2005, South Sudan's spending has not been proportional to its income, but rather has lagged … behind North Sudan's development of infrastructure and social support. South Sudan benefitted from strong donor support …
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economic, social, physical, and mental well-being. This study assesses the impact of the post-2013 conflict in South Sudan on …
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This paper focuses on three interrelated questions on urbanization and the geography of development. First, although we herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While such relationships appear in the data, the process is...
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This paper illustrates how the capabilities of GIS and satellite imagery can be harnessed to explore and better understand the urban form of several large African cities (Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Kigali, Dar es Salaam, and Dakar). To allow for comparability across very diverse cities, this work...
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