variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war …

to the three billion people who are poor using the $2.50 PPP dollar poverty line. A much larger number - 900 million … protections, and type of work), analysts and donors need to understand better how employment, growth, poverty and other factors …

poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …

Important gaps remain in the understanding of the economic consequences of civil war. Focusing on the conflict in …. Distinguishing between civil war and genocide, the findings also provide evidence that these returns, and by implication the process …

The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing …-specific data are analysed for the US$1.25 and US$2.50 level poverty headcount ratios using the most recent World Bank data. The … study finds that on average income growth has been the major driving force behind both the declines and increases in poverty …

model has two potential poverty traps - a climate-change-induced one and a civil-war-induced one - and the two poverty traps …We construct a model of development, civil war, and climate change. There are multiple interactions. Economic growth … reduces the probability of civil war and the vulnerability to climate change. Climate change increases the probability of …