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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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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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Macroinsurance for Microenterprises : A Randomized Experiment in Post-Revolution Egypt

Groh, Matthew - 2017

Firms in many developing countries cite macroeconomic instability and political uncertainty as major constraints to their growth. Economic theory suggests uncertainty can cause firms to delay investments until uncertainty is resolved. A randomized experiment was conducted in post-revolution...

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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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Risky Business : Political Instability and Greenfield Foreign Direct Investment in the Arab World

Burger, Martijn J. - 2017

investment flows into countries in the Middle East and North Africa from 2003 to 2012 shows that adverse political shocks are …

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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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