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Polarization, Foreign Military Intervention, and Civil Conflict

Abu-Bader, Suleiman - 2017

In a behavioral model of civil conflict, foreign military intervention alters the resources available to warring groups … effect of the intervention for conflict incidence. The paper confirms empirically the finding in the literature that ethnic … significantly associated with civil conflict in the presence of foreign military intervention of non-humanitarian and non …

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Estimation of Poverty in Somalia Using Innovative Methodologies

Pape, Utz Johann - 2019

Somalia is highly data-deprived, leaving policy makers to operate in a statistical vacuum. To overcome this challenge … infrastructure in Somalia posed several challenges for implementing a household survey and measuring poverty. This paper outlines how …

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Impact of Drought on Poverty in Somalia

Pape, Utz Johann - 2019

that Somalia experienced in 2016/17 on poverty, hunger, and consumption. The analysis uses a regression framework to …

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Public Versus Private Protection Against Crime : The Case of Somali Piracy

Do, Quy-Toan - 2018

This paper analyzes the rise and demise of piracy off the coast of Somalia to highlight the interplay between public …

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Second-Stage Sampling for Conflict Areas : Methods and Implications

Himelein, Kristen - 2017

The collection of survey data from war zones or other unstable security situations is vulnerable to error because conflict often limits the implementation options. Although there are elevated risks throughout the process, this paper focuses specifically on challenges to frame construction and...

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Household Expenditure and Poverty Measures in 60 Minutes : A New Approach with Results from Mogadishu

Pape, Utz Johann - 2018

In fragile states and areas beset by insecurity and conflict, the time available for a face-to-face interview is typically limited. That prevents administering the lengthy household consumption expenditure surveys used for measuring poverty. This paper presents a new approach to obtain unbiased...

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Democratic Jihad? Military Intervention and Democracy

Gleditsch, Nils Petter - 2016

. This is reinforced by an emerging norm of humanitarian intervention. Democracies may have a motivation to intervene in non …, democratic intervention appears to be successfully promoting democratization, but the target states tend to end up among the …

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Conflict and Poverty in Afghanistan's Transition

Floreani, Vincent - 2017

Despite record economic growth for more than a decade, poverty has remained stubbornly high in Afghanistan, especially in the regions that suffered less from conflict. This paper aims to explain this paradox by combining a model of conflict intensity at the province level over period 2007-14...

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Effect of Armed Conflict on Intimate Partner Violence : Evidence from the Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria

Ekhator-Mobayode, Uche Eseosa - 2020

Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women in conflict and non-conflict settings, but in conflict settings it often receives less attention than other forms of gender-based violence, such as conflict-related sexual violence. Using data from the 2008 and 2013...

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Stationary Bandits, State Capacity, and the Malthusian Transition : The Lasting Impact of the Taiping Rebellion

Xu, Lixin Colin - 2018

The Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) in China was the deadliest civil war in history. This paper provides evidence that this cataclysmic event significantly shaped the Malthusian transition and long-term development that followed, especially in areas where the experiences that stemmed from the...

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