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Sharing Oil Rents and Political Violence

Cordella, Tito - 2017

This paper investigates how the devolution of oil windfalls affects the likelihood of political violence. It shows that transferring large shares of oil wealth can prevent conflict, while transferring small shares can trigger it. Among the different transfer schemes, fiscal transfers (to...

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Party Age and Party Color : New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality

Keefer, Philip - 2017

This paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central -- but still contested -- assumption of the political...

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Emigration and Democracy

Docquier, Frédéric - 2017

. The authors find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that …

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Democratic Jihad? Military Intervention and Democracy

Gleditsch, Nils Petter - 2016

democracy. Thus, forced democratization is unpredictable with regard to achieving long-term democracy and potentially harmful … normative justification for such interventions, for the purpose of promoting democracy and eventually for the promotion of peace …, democratic intervention appears to be successfully promoting democratization, but the target states tend to end up among the …

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Framing Local Conflict and Justice in Bangladesh

Das, Maitreyi Bordia - 2017

The institutional landscape of local dispute resolution in Bangladesh is rich: it includes the traditional process of shalish, longstanding and impressive civil society efforts to improve on shalish, and a somewhat less-explored provision for gram adalat or village courts. Based on a nationally...

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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 "from the bottom up" through contributions to local security and local economic and social vitality was tested. The hypothesis reflects official thinking about how peacekeeping...

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Poverty, Social Divisions, and Conflict in Nepal

Iyer, Lakshmi - 2016

The authors conduct an econometric analysis of the economic and social factors which contributed to the spread of violent conflict in Nepal. They find that conflict intensity is significantly higher in places with greater poverty and lower levels of economic development. Violence is higher in...

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Improving Mental Well-Being and Productivity of Small-Medium Entrepreneurs in Fragile, Conflict and Violence Affected Areas : Can Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Trainings Help?

Saraf, Priyam - 2018

This literature review summarizes the link between psychological well-being and entrepreneurial outcomes for small and medium-size enterprises in fragile, conflict, and violence-affected contexts. It identifies potentially promising, scalable psychosocial training interventions, based on...

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Volunteerism after the Tsunami : The Effects of Democratization

Freire, Tiago - 2017

trauma, pre-existing social capital, diversity, and aid delivery, the papers focuses on the effects of democratization. The …

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Organizing for Prosperity : Collective Action, Political Parties and the Political Economy of Development

Keefer, Philip - 2017

development, including the causes and consequences of democratization and clientelism. This essay uses two lines of research to … suggests that in future research on democracy, state-building and development, citizen organization should be a central object …

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