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Conflict and development : recent research advances and future agendas
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Martin-Shields, … - 2017
We survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where academic research has started to establish stylized facts and where methodological and knowledge gaps remain. We focus our review on the role of civilian agency in conflict; on wartime...
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Is The 'Surge' Working? Some New Facts
Greenstone, Michael - 2007
There is a paucity of facts about the effects of the recent military Surge on conditions in Iraq and whether it is paving the way for a stable Iraq. Selective, anecdotal and incomplete analyses abound. Policy makers and defense planners must decide which measures of success or failure are most...
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Revolution and economic growth : evidence from the Sandinista Revolution
Silano, Filippo - 2023
improvement of GDP per capita's growth rate (+2%). On the other hand, the civil war's intensification that ensued (1984 …
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Wartime governance and state-building trajectories in post-conflict societies
Justino, Patricia - 2022
To date, there is limited understanding about the consequences of wartime dynamics for post-war state … armed groups govern territories and civilians within them-that under certain circumstances may be harnessed in the post-war … the type of statebuilding and political regime trajectories that emerge in the post-war period. …
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Wars and conflicts in the Sahara-Sahel
Walther, Olivier J. - 2017
The Sahel and the Sahara are faced with exceptional political instability involving a combination of rebellions, jihadist insurgencies, coups d’état, protest movements and illegal trafficking. The backdrop to this accumulated violence is a globalised security environment, which blurs the...
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Wars and famines : on divisions and incentives
Sen, Amartya - 1991
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Does conflict disrupt growth? : evidence of the relationship between political instability and national economic performance
Polachek, Solomon W.; Sevastianova, Daria - 2010
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 …-democracies, low income countries, and countries in Africa. -- Economic growth ; war ; conflict …
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Great war, civil war and recovery : Russia' national income, 1913 to 1928
Markevič, Andrej M.; Harrison, Mark - 2010
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Great war, civil war, and recovery : Russia's national income, 1913 to 1928
Markevič, Andrej M.; Harrison, Mark - 2010
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Great war, civil war, and recovery : Russia's national income, 1913 to 1928
Markevič, Andrej M.; Harrison, Mark - In: The journal of economic history 71 (2011) 3, pp. 672-703
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