-in-difference-in-differences approach, we analyze empirically whether the presence of US-based NGOs in Afghanistan and Iraq improved their chances of … external funding. We find that NGOs being active in Afghanistan tended to benefit from easier access to official sources of …

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 …

, checkpoints form a key source of revenue for parties to the conflict. Whether in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo …

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 …

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 …