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Avoiding the Fragility Trap in Africa
Andrimihaja, Noro Aina - 2017
Not only do Africa's fragile states grow more slowly than non-fragile states, but they seem to be caught in a …
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Private Chinese Investment in Africa : Myths and Realities
Shen, Xiaofang - 2017
challenges for Africa today. The significance of Chinese private-sector investment is already visible in the burgeoning … manufacturing sector in some parts of Africa, and the trend will continue to grow in the near future. The underlying force behind …-intensive firms to relocate to other parts of the developing world, including Africa. African host country governments can respond to …
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Losing the Gains of the Past : The Welfare and Distributional Impacts of the Twin Crises in Iraq 2014
Krishnan, Nandini - 2017
Iraq was plunged into two simultaneous crises in the second half of 2014, one driven by a sharp decline in oil prices, the other, by the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The severity and recurrent nature of these crises demand a fast understanding and quantification of their...
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Sifting Through the Data : Labor Markets in Haiti Through a Turbulent Decade (2001-2012)
Scot, Thiago - 2017
In Latin America, labor markets have been the main channel through which growth has reduced poverty, with higher labor income accounting for 49 percent of the reduction in poverty in 2008?13. Understanding labor markets is critical to designing policies and programs aimed at reducing poverty....
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Natural Resources, Weak States and Civil War : Can Rents Stabilize Coup Prone Regimes?
Bodea, Cristina - 2017
This paper argues that state weakness is broader than implied previously in the civil war literature, and that particular types of weakness in interaction with natural resources have aggravating or mitigating consequences for the risk of civil war. While in anocracies or unstable regimes natural...
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Identifying Aid Effectiveness Challenges in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
Ishihara, Yoichiro - 2017
Fragile and conflict-affected states face daunting challenges for development. Aid has a greater importance on development in these states than in others, and therefore aid effectiveness ?management and delivery of aid ? bears serious consideration. Despite its significance, aid effectiveness is...
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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 …
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Trade and Civil Conflict : Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence
Calì, Massimiliano - 2017
This paper revisits and expands the evidence on the impact of trade shocks on intra-state conflict with a large sample of developing countries in the 1960-2010 period. The results suggest that increases in the prices of a country's exported commodities raise the country's risk of civil conflict...
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Job Creation in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations
Ralston, Laura - 2017
This paper presents a comprehensive review of the operations that the World Bank has supported to create jobs and promote employment in fragile and conflict-affected situations. A novel approach to identifying projects is presented that enables searching for projects based on stated development...
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Insecurity and Industrial Organization : Evidence from Afghanistan
Blumenstock, Joshua Evan - 2018
One-fifth of the world's population lives in countries affected by fragility, violence and conflict, impeding long-term economic growth. However, little is known about how firms respond to local changes in security, partly because of the difficulty of measuring firm activity in these settings....
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