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Microeconomic analyses of the causes and consequences of political violence

Kreibaum, Merle - 2015

Violent conflict is common among the poorest countries and clearly one of the most important barriers to growth, destroying physical, human, and social capital, often in the long run. At the same time, it is a development `trap' that is not easy to escape from as poverty has also been found to...

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The impact of demographic dynamics on economic development, poverty and inequality in Mozambique and Uganda

Klasen, Stephan (contributor); Lawson, David (contributor); … - 2007

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The impact of demographic dynamics on economic development, poverty and inequality in Mozambique

Klasen, Stephan (contributor); Woltermann, Silke (contributor) - 2005

In this paper, we analyze whether current demographic dynamics in Mozambique are likely to reduce per capita growth and poverty reduction. The findings suggest that population dynamics do not appear to be a major driver of changes in growth of per capita incomes, poverty, or inequality. At the...

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Essays in development economics : democracy and education

Idzalika, Rajius - 2016

Essay 1: We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democracy based on the data sets of Acemoglu … variable democracy. Contrary to the results of Acemoglu et al. (2008), some support of causality is found particularly when … explaining heteroscedasticity. We also find democracy is a bimodal variable and approximate the distribution using two separate …

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Essays on food security and the nutrition transition in developing countries

Rischke, Ramona - 2014

The nature of food insecurity has been changing in the world. While research on food insecurity in developing countries used to focus on undernourishment (i.e. lack of calorie consumption) and related outcomes, today, many developing countries face at least a “double burden of malnutrition”...

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Supermarkets and food consumption patterns : the case of small towns in Kenya

Rischke, Ramona; Kimenju, Simon C.; Klasen, Stephan; … - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 52 (2015), pp. 9-21

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Large–scale land acquisitions in sub–Saharan Africa

Nolte, Kerstin - 2014

This dissertation contributes to the literature by providing evidence on the rising global phenomenon of investments in land through in–depth insights obtained from a cross–country study as well as from three case–studies based in sub–Saharan Africa. Chapter 2 contributes to the...

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