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This paper investigates the determinants of intra-household time allocation in post-war Rwanda. A decade after the 1994 … genocide, Rwanda still bears the demographic impact of the war, in which at least 800,000 people died and the majority of …
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genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of the survivors in multiple ways. The analysis finds a robust effect of …The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different … reducing fertility for the large group of widows in Rwanda. …
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our experiences in studying how powersharing peace agreements affect the local level and why conflict dynamics often …
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ultimate determinants of conflict. However, fractionalization in all its demographic forms is endogenous in the long run. In … the relationship between fractionalization and the propensity of internal conflict statistically insignificant. Finally …
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covering the period 1982-1997. The types of pollution included in the studyare wastewater, waste gas and solid waste. We … consider the development of the sources ofpollution in a pooled cross-section analysis considering the pollution in absolute … emissions tends to decelerate, but accelerates again at high levels of GDP per capita.Water pollution decreases with per capita …
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Gewalttätige Konflikte behindern die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Armutsbekämpfung eines Landes erheblich … Ruandas, wie Frauen nach einem gewalttätigen Konflikt neue wirtschaftliche Verantwortlichkeiten übernehmen. In dem kleinen … Ruanda. Für letztere könnte dies eine Strategie sein, um ihre Heiratschancen zu verbessern. …
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this change in a case study on Rwanda. In the empirical analysis, we find that highly targeted Aid for Business has a … directed at broad governance areas. In the country case study, we depart from Rwanda's excellent regulatory performance to …
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Rwanda is among the few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the developing approaching universal health insurance …
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The economic literature has given due attention to household coping strategies in peacetime. In contrast, little is known about such strategies in wartime. This paper studies the use of cattle as a buffer stock by Rwandan households during 1991-2001, a period characterized by civil war and...
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evidence on the death toll of firmed conflict in Rwanda, we find significant high-high excess mortality clusters in the …Rwanda experienced several firms of internal violence, including civil war,genocide, reprisal killings and (counter …-)insurgency. While these events all occurred in 1990-1998, their geographic location within Rwanda differred, with the genocide …
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