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This book examines the international factors such as enforced democracy and globalization that have affected the Great Lakes region of Africa. The horrendous consequences in terms of violence and human suffering of the events in this area have been exhibited in the media, however news coverage...
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The microfinance sector in Rwanda is relatively young. Although small self-help peasant organizations (such as tontines …-ROSCA or ibimina) have existed for some time, the sector growth accelerated with the creation of the Banque Populaire du Rwanda … (BPR) and Union des Banques Populaires du Rwanda (UBPR) in 1975 whose network dominates the microfinance industry today …
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Several papers have attempted to estimate and document the impact of conflict on several education, health and socioeconomic outcomes. One lesson from the past research is the heterogeneity in the effect of violent conflict across and within countries. In this paper we attempt to estimate the...
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This paper estimates the welfare change arising from the capture of the Republic of Yemen's capital in 2014, using a multi-themed household survey conducted as the capital was captured. Despite the little violence in this setting, the increase in fragility resulted in a large decline in...
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This study examines the impact of the Sierra Leone civil war on household expenditure inequality. The paper exploits three rounds of household survey data for Sierra Leone in an attempt to estimate the impact of the conflict on the distribution of household welfare over both short-run and...
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