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In this paper we study the legal needs of groups of vulnerable people in five developing countries: Azerbaijan, Mali, Rwanda, Egypt and Bangladesh. Our first objective is to explore the legal problems which are encountered by vulnerable people in these societies. Second, our study looks at the...
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This paper assesses the usefulness of a new emerging body of work on the micro-level analysis of conflict and violence … in advancing our current understanding of the relationship between violent conflict and household poverty. Micro …-level empirical evidence on the relationship between violent conflict and poverty has been scarce and at times contradictory. This …
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The purpose of the chapter is to analyze Africa's economic successes in the past half century, to understand not only what made it possible but also and more importantly what risk factors may eventually bring it to an end or compromise it. While it may not be possible for Africa to alter, for...
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several country-specific characteristics, including the quality of institutions. …
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Conflict-affected States (FCS) during the last decades were a resounding success in terms of official development resources … regressed. The main reason for the poor value for money is that while International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have spent …
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Several papers have attempted to estimate and document the impact of conflict on several education, health and … socioeconomic outcomes. One lesson from the past research is the heterogeneity in the effect of violent conflict across and within … countries. In this paper we attempt to estimate the casual impact of conflict in Nigeria on welfare related outcomes. The 2009 …
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three rounds of household survey data for Sierra Leone in an attempt to estimate the impact of the conflict on the … experienced a sharp reduction in household expenditure inequality in the immediate aftermath of the conflict with most of the …
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This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education investments, employment patterns and other features of the of the economic lives of the middle classes defined as those whose daily consumption per capita is between $2 and $4 or...
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