One-fifth of the world's population lives in countries affected by fragility, violence and conflict, impeding long … activity using mobile phone metadata. Using Afghanistan as the empirical setting, the analysis combines mobile phone data from … private sector in Afghanistan responds to insecurity. The findings indicate that firms reduce presence in districts following …

Household surveys in Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka were analyzed using a two …

increase in many fragile and conflict-affected areas where half of the extreme poor are expected to reside by 2030. These areas … Poor program can lift households out of poverty in a fragile context: Afghanistan. In 80 villages in Balkh province, 1 …-push" interventions can dramatically reduce poverty in fragile and conflict-affected regions …

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 locations that favor insurgents, such as mountains and forests. The … authors find weaker evidence that caste divisions in society are correlated with the intensity of civil conflict, while …

This paper examines how Nepal's 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women's decisions to engage in employment. Using … three waves of the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, the authors employ a difference-in-difference approach to identify … the impact of war on women's employment decisions. The results indicate that as a result of the Maoist-led insurgency …

of violent conflict at the micro-level. The authors review existing conflict -- and violence-related survey … challenges associated with empirical work in conflict-affected areas?such as operationalizing a definition of conflict, using the … ethically sound manner?and propose ways to improve the usefulness of existing surveys to analyze conflict processes at the micro …

Although Sri Lanka has made significant progress in social and economic development over the past decade, the Northern … and Eastern provinces that faced the brunt of the decades-long conflict remain disproportionately poor. To understand the …

, Pakistan, and Nepal) and two from Sub-Saharan Africa (Tanzania and Uganda) -- this paper conducts a systematic assessment of …

medium-size enterprises in fragile, conflict, and violence-affected contexts. It identifies potentially promising, scalable … of regular business-related entrepreneurial stressors with the uncertainties of a fragile, conflict, and violence … important drivers of income in fragile, conflict, and violence-affected contexts, future research might benefit from evaluating …