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analysis of large-scale violent conflict with other forms of violence, instability, fragility, and humanitarian crises. …
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Following the abolition of slavery, various forms of compulsory labour were adopted by colonial powers to develop their economies. This paper analyses the contemporary consequences of compulsory cotton production-a forced labour system that operated in colonial Mozambique from 1926 to 1961....
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factor for spousal (emotional and physical) violence against them, particularly in the case of Pakistan. Using data from … Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) 2012 to 2013, we employed logistic regression to investigate this relationship … between women's access to economic resources and spousal violence against them by using two indicators: (a) whether she earns …
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liveable life and theorising precarity unfolds as a spatially constituted condition of everyday life given over to the violence … dispossessed people are subjected to structural, symbolic, and direct modalities of violence; this simultaneously constitutes their … multifarious violence that it engenders, extractive capital accumulation is sustained even in the margins, historically excluded …
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of countries characterised by long-term armed conflict (Colombia, Iraq, Nigeria) or having transitioned from … violence against civilians, but over time there was a decrease. We also find that COVID-19 had an early demobilising effect vis …-à-vis protest and mob violence, a consequence of lockdowns and mobility restrictions. Yet, protest has quickly returned to pre …
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The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns have led to a rise in gender-based violence. In this paper, we explore the economic … consequences of violence against women in sub-Saharan Africa using large demographic and health survey data collected pre … violence by 1 percentage point can reduce economic activities (as proxied by nightlights) by up to 8 percent. This economic …
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The share of people living in extreme poverty fell from 36 percent in 1990 to 10 percent in 2015 but has continued to increase in many fragile and conflict-affected areas where half of the extreme poor are expected to reside by 2030. These areas are also where the least evidence exists on how to...
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