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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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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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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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Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia
Brenton, Paul - 2019
This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age … (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings …
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Long-Term Impacts of an Unanticipated Risk Event : The 2007/08 Food Price Crisis and Child Growth in Indonesia
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2017
Unanticipated spikes in food prices can increase malnutrition among the poor, with lasting consequences; however, livelihood strategies that include producing food for home consumption are expected to offer a measure of protection. Using anthropometric and consumption data from Indonesia...
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Small Area Estimation of Child Malnutrition in Ethiopian Woredas
Sohnesen, Thomas Pave - 2017
Reducing child undernutrition is a key social policy objective of the Ethiopian government. Despite substantial … reduction over the past decade and a half, child undernutrition is still high. With 48 percent of children stunted, underweight …, or wasted, undernutrition remains an important child health challenge. The existing literature highlights that the …
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The Challenge of Measuring Hunger
De Weerdt, Joachim - 2017
There is widespread interest in the number of hungry people in the world and trends in hunger. Current global counts rely on combining each country's total food balance with information on distribution patterns from household consumption expenditure surveys. Recent research has advocated for...
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Feeding Five Billion Asians : A Socioeconomic Perspective
Cuesta, Jose - 2017
This paper reviews the prospects for long-term food security in Asia, where a significant number of malnourished individuals still live after decades of mixed progress. Evidence shows that poverty reduction on its own will not do the job of eradicating hunger, nor will only increased food...
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Improving Child Nutrition Outcomes in India : Can the Integrated Child Development Services Be More Effective?
Das Gupta, Monica - 2017
Levels of child malnutrition in India fell only slowly during the 1990s, despite significant economic growth and large public spending on the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program, of which the major component is supplementary feeding for malnourished children. To unravel this...
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