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Framing Local Conflict and Justice in Bangladesh

Das, Maitreyi Bordia - 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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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

Iyer, Lakshmi - 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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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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Spatial Distributions of Job Accessibility, Housing Rents, and Poverty in Nairobi, Kenya

Nakamura, Shohei - 2018

distributions of job accessibility, housing rents, and poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. It finds that workers and jobs are not well …

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Survey of the Kenyan Private Equity and Venture Capital Landscape

Divakaran, Shanthi - 2018

This paper discusses the landscape for private equity and venture capital financing in Kenya. It provides an overview …/regulatory/taxation drivers and impediments that affect Kenya?s private equity and venture capital industry …

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Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition Through Parent-Child Book-Sharing : A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya

Knauer, Heather Ashley - 2019

83- month-old children ages 24 to 83 months (n = 510) in rural Kenya. The first treatment group received storybooks …

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Replication Redux : The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming

Ozier, Owen - 2019

In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...

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Learning from Power Sector Reform : The Case of Kenya

Godinho, Catrina - 2019

Two successive waves of reform have fundamentally altered the structure and organization of Kenya's vibrant power … complementary entities. Although the government retains majority ownership of the largest power utilities in the country (Kenya … Power, ~51 percent; KenGen, ~70 percent), Kenya has been able to position itself as one of the foremost destinations in the …

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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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