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The paper examines the relationship between conflict and entrepreneurial activity in Afghanistan, drawing upon a unique … data set, the National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment household survey 2005. Afghanistan is severely underdeveloped and … poor. Conflict has persisted in vast swathes of the country for decades, so that Afghanistan may be more appropriately …
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Afghanistan, Somalia und die Demokratische Republik Kongo sind Beispiele für Entwicklungsländer, die unter den Folgen …" möglich. Wenn diese Zusammenhänge jedoch vernachlässigt werden, schließt sich die Falle. In Afghanistan könnte es zu spät sein … wahrscheinlich alternative Modelle für sein militärisches und wirtschaftliches Engagement in Afghanistan finden müssen. …
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We show that the recent rise in Afghan opium production is caused by violent conflicts. Violence destroys roads and irrigation, crucial to alternative crops, and weakens local incentives to rebuild infrastructure and enforce law and order. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western...
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We show that the recent rise in Afghan opium production is caused by violent conflicts. Violence destroys roads and irrigation, crucial to alternative crops, and weakens local incentives to rebuild infrastructure and enforce law and order. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western...
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, checkpoints form a key source of revenue for parties to the conflict. Whether in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo …
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linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large …. Therefore while conflict may not be the driving factor in overall levels of food insecurity in Afghanistan, it may limit the …
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Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the … Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from January 2007 to December 2010. We find that drone strikes do not have any … significant impact on terrorist violence in Afghanistan but that drone strikes do have a significant impact on Taliban …
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