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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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Deep Integration and UK-EU Trade Relations
Mulabdic, Alen - 2017
This paper studies the impact of deep agreements on United Kingdom-European Union trade relations. A standard gravity model is applied to assess the effect that European Union membership had on the United Kingdom's trade. The paper uses new information on the content of trade agreements to build...
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Bulgaria's Institutions and Policies : Integrating into Pan-European Markets
Kaminski, Bartlomiej - 2016
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Turkey's Evolving Trade Integration into Pan-European Markets
Ng, Francis - 2016
This is an empirical paper seeking to identify the mode of Turkey's integration into global markets in general, and pan-European markets in particular, as revealed in its trade performance. The analysis provides empirical support to the following observations. First, thanks to steady expansion...
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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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