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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 …
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focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …
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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 …
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This paper provides a critical analysis of the possible methods, data sources and the existing results of the field of 'the economic costs of mass violent conflict' by identifying strengths and weaknesses of the existing literature. The report evaluates content, methods, and data sources of the...
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This report uses content analysis to identify and compare trends in Islamic State's contemporary messaging, their main internal debates and their priorities over a sixmonth period between October 2019 and April 2020. The study explores the nuances and dynamics of the organisation's world view...
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This article uses Aufbau Ost (or reconstruction of the East) of the new German states as a structural model to estimate the possible costs of an Aufbau Ost 2.0 of Ukraine while taking institutional differences into account. Based on three approaches, the model is validated for the new German...
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Gewalttätige Konflikte sind vor allem in notleidenden Regionen der Welt verbreitet, es ist aber wenig darüber bekannt, wie die Wirklichkeit der betroffenen Menschen aussieht und welche Entscheidungen sie zu fällen haben. In diesem Bericht untersuchen wir, wie Individuen während des...
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development, reconciliation and peace building. Burundi is in a state of post-conflict recovery after decades of civil war and …
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Rich measures of micro-level violent intensity are jey for succesfully providing insight into the legacy of civil war …
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This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether … armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the actions of a tenacious, brutally effective war machine, the Shining … Path, between 1980 and 1995. This study finds that the most sensitive period to early-life exposure to civil war violence …
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