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Some Economic Consequences of the Transition from Civil War to Peace

Azam, Jean-Paul - 2017

Drawing on evidence from Africa - especially Ethiopia and Uganda - the authors of this volume draw conclusions about economic policy in the aftermath of civil war. A sample of conclusions follows. Civil wars differ from international wars. They are informal, often have no clear beginning and...

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Post-Conflict Justice and Sustainable Peace

Gates, Scott - 2016

No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This paper attempts to fill that void by building on a newly constructed dataset (Binningsbo, Elster, and Gates 2005), which reports the presence of various forms of post-conflict...

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Does the 2015 Peace Accord in Mali Reflect the Priorities of Households and Local Leaders?

Lendorfer, Julia - 2017

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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Impact Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Interventions

Gaarder, Marie - 2017

The international community is paying increased attention to the 25 percent of the world's population that lives in fragile and conflict affected settings, acknowledging that these settings represent daunting development challenges. To deliver better results on the ground, it is necessary to...

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Peacekeeping and Development in Fragile States : Micro-Level Evidence from Liberia

Mvukiyehe, Eric - 2018

Using surveys and administrative data from post-war Liberia, the hypothesis that peacekeeping deployments build peace … hypothesis reflects official thinking about how peacekeeping works via "peacebuilding." A quasi-experiment was created by … similarly likely to receive peacekeeping bases. The analysis finds nothing to support claims that deployments increase local …

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Political Leadership, Conflict, and the Prospects for Constitutional Peace

Jennings, Colin - 2016

The emphasis on constitutional political economy has been that new rules and institutions can be devised that improve the welfare of a society. Given the number of societies that are infected with political conflict and, as a result, lower levels of welfare, this paper attempts to analyze why we...

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Growth after War in Syria

Devadas, Sharmila - 2019

This paper addresses three questions: 1) what would have been the growth and income trajectory of Syria in the absence of war; 2) given the war, what explains the reduction in economic growth in terms physical capital, labor force, human capital, and productivity; and 3) what potential growth...

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Capital Flight and War

Davies, Victor A. B. - 2016

The author provides empirical evidence on the effects of inflation on post-war capital flight flows. He tests the hypothesis that inflation has a positive additional impact on capital flight flows after war. He uses a new panel dataset of 77 developing countries, of which 35 experienced at least...

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The Aftermath of Civil War

Chen, Siyan - 2016

Using an quot;event-studyquot; methodology, this paper analyzes the aftermath of civil war in a cross-section of countries. It focuses on those experiences where the end of conflict marks the beginning of a relatively lasting peace. The paper considers 41 countries involved in internal wars in...

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Identifying Catch-Up Trajectories in Child Growth : New Methods with Evidence from Young Lives

Jones, Sam - 2018

of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …

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