The experience and lessons of the last two decades have shown that ignoring the key differences between the economics of peace and the economics of development has been a major reason why countries relapse into conflict. This paper briefly analyses such differences and their important...

In this paper stochastic dynamic programming is used to investigate habitat conservation by a multitude of landholders under uncertainty about the value of environmental services and irreversible development. We study land conversion under competition on the market for agricultural products when...

Liberia has been the victim of 14 years of civil war due to which GDP experienced a downfall by over 90% making the economic growth process halted. This paper traces the extent of Liberia’s collapse, and examines the patterns of post-conflict recovery as a model which can be followed by other...

El incremento de las transferencias ligadas a la explotación de industrias extractivas hacia los gobiernos subnacionales ha sido significativo en los últimos años. Ello ha estado acompañado de un crecimiento de la volatilidad de los mismos tanto entre las municipalidades en cada año así...