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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 …

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Dictators Walking the Mogadishu Line : How Men Become Monsters and Monsters Become Men

Sarr, Mare - 2017

History offers many examples of dictators who worsened their behavior significantly over time (like Zimbabwe's Mugabe) as well as dictators who displayed remarkable improvements (like Rawlings of Ghana). The authors show that such mutations can result from rational behavior when the dictator's...

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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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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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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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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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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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Estimating Poverty Among Refugee Populations : A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad

Beltram, Theresa - 2020

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad …, by combining United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees survey and administrative data. The proposed method offers …

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The Globalization of Refugee Flows

Devictor, Xavier - 2020

This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about … refugees today compared with past decades. (i) Refugees today travel longer distances. (ii) Refugees today are less likely to … seek protection in a neighboring country. (iii) Refugees today are less geographically concentrated. And (iv) refugees …

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