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Does the 2015 Peace Accord in Mali Reflect the Priorities of Households and Local Leaders?

Lendorfer, Julia - 2017

Using unique household level data collected in northern Mali in August and September 2015, this paper explores whether the content of the 2015 Peace Accord reflects the concerns and priorities of the citizens, local leaders, and refugees, or whether it is an exclusive agreement between elites...

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Impact Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Interventions

Gaarder, Marie - 2017

The international community is paying increased attention to the 25 percent of the world's population that lives in fragile and conflict affected settings, acknowledging that these settings represent daunting development challenges. To deliver better results on the ground, it is necessary to...

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Peacekeeping and Development in Fragile States : Micro-Level Evidence from Liberia

Mvukiyehe, Eric - 2018

Using surveys and administrative data from post-war Liberia, the hypothesis that peacekeeping deployments build peace … hypothesis reflects official thinking about how peacekeeping works via "peacebuilding." A quasi-experiment was created by … similarly likely to receive peacekeeping bases. The analysis finds nothing to support claims that deployments increase local …

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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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Political Leadership, Conflict, and the Prospects for Constitutional Peace

Jennings, Colin - 2016

The emphasis on constitutional political economy has been that new rules and institutions can be devised that improve the welfare of a society. Given the number of societies that are infected with political conflict and, as a result, lower levels of welfare, this paper attempts to analyze why we...

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Post-Conflict Justice and Sustainable Peace

Gates, Scott - 2016

No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This paper attempts to fill that void by building on a newly constructed dataset (Binningsbo, Elster, and Gates 2005), which reports the presence of various forms of post-conflict...

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Employer Voices, Employer Demands, and Implications for Public Skills Development Policy Connecting the Labor and Education Sectors

Cunningham, Wendy - 2017

Educators believe that they are adequately preparing youth for the labor market while at the same time employers lament the students' lack of skills. A possible source of the mismatch in perceptions is that employers and educators have different understandings of the types of skills valued in...

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Following Mexican Youth : A Short-Run Study of Time Use Decisions

Baron, Juan D. - 2017

This paper exploits data from a rotating panel that follows individuals for four quarters to shed light on the factors driving the time use decisions and restrictions faced by Mexican youth. The results of the analysis imply that: (i) once youth aged 15 to 18 years old leave school, it is very...

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Social and Economic Impacts of Rural Road Improvements in the State of Tocantins, Brazil

Iimi, Atsushi - 2017

The aim of this paper is to provide feedback on the question of socioeconomic benefits from rural road development and the impact of transport infrastructure on the poor, particularly the poorest and the bottom 20 percent of the population. This paper relies on impact evaluation methodologies,...

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Employability and Skill Set of Newly Graduated Engineers in India

Blom, Andreas - 2017

Skill shortage remains one of the major constraints to continued growth of the Indian economy. This employer survey seeks to address this knowledge-gap by answering three questions: (i) Which skills do employers consider important when hiring new engineering graduates? (ii) How satisfied are...

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