of violent conflict at the micro-level. The authors review existing conflict -- and violence-related survey … questionnaires, with a particular focus on the World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Surveys. Further, they discuss methodological … challenges associated with empirical work in conflict-affected areas?such as operationalizing a definition of conflict, using the …

In areas afflicted by civil conflict, development projects can potentially serve an important counterinsurgency …

and Eastern provinces that faced the brunt of the decades-long conflict remain disproportionately poor. To understand the …

This paper studies the performance of alternative prediction models for conflict. The analysis contrasts the … correlates of conflict to minimize the prediction loss function, and (2) an algorithm that chooses a set of thresholds for the … same variables, together with the number of breaches of thresholds that constitute a prediction of conflict, that minimize …

an empirical mapping of local conflict and justice and pointers to possible policy reforms. It suggests a number of …

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 …