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of peace and the economics of development has been a major reason why countries relapse into conflict. This paper briefly … consolidate peace and avoid that Liberia relapses into conflict. -- international relations and international political economy … ; conflict ; natural …
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What is required for a poor country to turn a valuable resource endowment into a driver of development? The resource curse literature highlighted the importance of institutions and the nature of the resource, neither of which is a useful policy guide. A more recent literature views resource...
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This paper studies the effects of bilateral foreign aid on conflict escalation and de-escalation. We make three major …-sided and multifaceted nature of conflict. Second, we develop a novel empirical framework. We propose a dynamic ordered probit … aid on conflict by predicting bilateral aid flows based on electoral outcomes of donor countries that are exogenous to …
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This paper studies the effects of bilateral foreign aid on conflict escalation and de-escalation. We make three major …-sided and multifaceted nature of conflict. Second, we develop a novel empirical framework. We propose a dynamic ordered probit … aid on conflict by predicting bilateral aid flows based on electoral outcomes of donor countries that are exogenous to …
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This paper studies the effects of bilateral foreign aid on conflict escalation and de-escalation. We make three major …-sided and multifaceted nature of conflict. Second, we develop a novel empirical framework. We propose a dynamic ordered probit … aid on conflict by predicting bilateral aid flows based on electoral outcomes of donor countries that are exogenous to …
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This paper examines the effect of foreign aid in the terrorism-FDI nexus while considering the extent of domestic corruption-control (CC). The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 78 developing countries. The following findings are established: the negative effect of terrorism on FDI is...
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Gender inequality, conflict and fragility are key challenges to sustainable development. They are inextricably linked …: unequal gender relations can drive conflict and violence, while women’s active participation in decision-making contributes to … gender equality into programming in fragile and conflict-affected settings. It focuses on engaging men and boys and …
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Studies that examine the impact of food prices on conflict usually assume that (all) changes in international food … commodity prices, we show that this assumption could seriously distort estimations of the impact on conflict in African regions …. Specifically, we show that increases in food prices that are caused by harvest shocks outside Africa raise conflict significantly …
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Gender inequality, conflict and fragility are key challenges to sustainable development. They are inextricably linked …: unequal gender relations can drive conflict and violence, while women’s active participation contributes to peace and … equality and sustainable peace requires an understanding of gender, conflict and fragility that is deeper, wider, and more …
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