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Some Economic Consequences of the Transition from Civil War to Peace

Azam, Jean-Paul - 2017

Drawing on evidence from Africa - especially Ethiopia and Uganda - the authors of this volume draw conclusions about economic policy in the aftermath of civil war. A sample of conclusions follows. Civil wars differ from international wars. They are informal, often have no clear beginning and...

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Polarization and its Discontents : Morocco Before and after the Arab Spring

Clementi, Fabio - 2019

This paper uses data obtained from three Moroccan household surveys that took place between 2000 to 2013, to address issues related to the so-called "Arab puzzle." Welfare inequalities are low and declining in Arab countries and exist against the backdrop of a growing sense of dissatisfaction...

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The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Jakiela, Pamela - 2017

This study estimates the impact of Kenya?s post-election violence on individual risk preferences. Because the crisis interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, this timing creates plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to civil conflict by the time of the...

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Socioeconomic Impact of the Crisis in North Mali on Displaced People

Etang-Ndip, Alvin - 2017

This paper analyzes the impact of the 2012 crisis in Mali on internally displaced people, refugees and returnees. It uses information from a face-to-face household survey as well as follow-up interviews with its respondents via mobile phones. This combination was found to present a good and...

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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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Welfare Dynamics with Synthetic Panels : The Case of the Arab World in Transition

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2018

This paper studies welfare dynamics, especially changes associated with middle-class status in countries in the Middle East and North Africa, before and after the Arab Spring transitions, using objective and subjective welfare measures. Absent panel data, the analysis employs state-of-the-art...

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The Impact of the Arab Spring on the Tunisian Economy

Matta, Samer - 2017

This paper uses Synthetic Control Methodology to estimate the output loss in Tunisia as a result of the "Arab Spring." The results suggest that the loss was 5.5 percent, 5.1 percent, and 6.4 percent of GDP in 2011, 2012, and 2013 respectively. These findings are robust to a series of tests,...

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Gender Differences in Poverty and Household Composition Through the Life-Cycle : A Global Perspective

Munoz Boudet, Ana Maria - 2018

finds that, girls and women of reproductive age are more likely to live in poor households (below the international poverty … line) than boys and men. It finds that 122 women between the ages of 25 and 34 live in poor households for every 100 men of … account for 41 percent of poor households, and are the most frequent household where poor women are found. Using an economic …

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Migrants, Towns, Poverty and Jobs : Insights from Tanzania

Christiaensen, Luc - 2018

For a long time, the urbanization and development discourse has coincided with a focus on economic growth and big cities. Yet, much of the world's new urbanization is taking place in smaller urban entities (towns), and the composition of urbanization may well bear on the speed of poverty...

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Greying the Budget : Ageing and Preferences Over Public Policies

de Mello, Luiz R. - 2017

This paper looks at how individual preferences for the allocation of government spending change along the life cycle. Using the Life in Transition Survey II for 34 countries in Europe and Central Asia, the study finds that older individuals are less likely to support a rise in government outlays...

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