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Conflict and entrepreneurial activity in Afghanistan: Findings from the national risk vulnerability assessment data
Ciarli, Tommaso; Parto, Saeed; Savona, Maria - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333036
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Opium for the masses?: conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan
Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove; Willumsen, Fredrik - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264577
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Third generation civil-military relations and the 'new revolution in military affairs'
Rosén, Frederik - 2009
The encounter with insurgency violence in Iraq and Afghanistan has pressed the US Department of Defense to improve the … Afghanistan, in which the US mili-tary is carrying out holistic civil governance reform projects. Whether such work will become a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273241
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Opium for the masses? Conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan
Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275898
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The responsibility to protect remains a challenge: The plight of the Afghan interpreters
Sørensen, Ninna Nyberg; Andersen, Emma Katarina - 2022
agreement on the management of the situation for interpreters and other locally employed in Afghanistan' (Tolkeaftalen) by the … academic analyses, policy reports, a recent joint Danish government evaluation of the evacuation from Afghanistan, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540969
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The global checkpoint economy: Supply chains as a new frontline in conflict financing?
Schouten, Peer - 2019
, checkpoints form a key source of revenue for parties to the conflict. Whether in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387891
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Fulfilling U.S. Commitments to Its Afghan Allies
Gelatt, Julia - In: Intereconomics 56 (2021) 5, pp. 299-300
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012700541
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Conflict, food price shocks, and food insecurity: The experience of Afghan households
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283950
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Are drone strikes effective in Afghanistan and Pakistan? On the dynamics of violence between the United States and the Taliban
Jaeger, David A.; Siddique, Zahra - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286855