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Improving Mental Well-Being and Productivity of Small-Medium Entrepreneurs in Fragile, Conflict and Violence Affected Areas : Can Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Trainings Help?

Saraf, Priyam - 2018

This literature review summarizes the link between psychological well-being and entrepreneurial outcomes for small and medium-size enterprises in fragile, conflict, and violence-affected contexts. It identifies potentially promising, scalable psychosocial training interventions, based on...

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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 "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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Poverty, Social Divisions, and Conflict in Nepal

Lakshmi Iyer - 2016

The authors conduct an econometric analysis of the economic and social factors which contributed to the spread of violent conflict in Nepal. They find that conflict intensity is significantly higher in places with greater poverty and lower levels of economic development. Violence is higher in...

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Framing Local Conflict and Justice in Bangladesh

Bordia Das, Maitreyi - 2017

The institutional landscape of local dispute resolution in Bangladesh is rich: it includes the traditional process of shalish, longstanding and impressive civil society efforts to improve on shalish, and a somewhat less-explored provision for gram adalat or village courts. Based on a nationally...

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The"Resource Curse"In MENA? Political Transitions, Resource Wealth, Economic Shocks, and Conflict Risk

Ross, Michael L. - 2017

The recent political upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa region have exposed growing concerns about conflict risk, political stability, and reform prospects across its societies. Given the prevalence of oil and gas resource endowments in the region, which a voluminous literature...

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Does Mobile Money Use Increase Firms'Investment? Evidence from Enterprise Surveys in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania

Islam, Asif - 2017

nationally representative of the private sector in three East African countries -- Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda -- a positive …

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Do Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Explain the Gender Wage Gap in Middle-Income Countries? An Analysis Using Step Data

Tognatta, Namrata - 2017

Gender-based wage discrimination is a highly researched area of labor economics. However, most studies on this topic have focused on schooling and paid limited attention to the mechanisms through which cognitive and noncognitive skills influence wages. This paper uses data from adults in seven...

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Deal or No Deal : Strictly Business for China in Kenya?

Sanghi, Apurva - 2017

paper remedies this by focusing on a single, oil-importing country: Kenya. The paper examines China's economic presence in … Kenya and some of the popular myths surrounding Chinese economic activity. The first myth is that Chinese companies do not … chance of expanding its exports to Kenya than Kenya does to China based on existing specializations. This may change with …

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Bright Lights, Big Cities : Measuring National and Subnational Economic Growth in Africa from Outer Space, with an Application to Kenya and Rwanda

Bundervoet, Tom - 2017

subnational 2013 gross domestic product for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational gross domestic …. For Kenya, the results of the analysis affirm that Nairobi County is the largest contributor to national gross domestic … official statistics in Kenya and Rwanda, it is important to estimate subnational gross domestic product using standard …

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

Jakiela, Pamela - 2017

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

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