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from Syria by highlighting the degree of development of the country before the policy crisis in 2011. An attempt was also … the surprise of external and internal influences in the country: a comparison with neighboring Arab countries of Syria … conflict from 2011 affecting all economic and social sectors, the damage and the possibilities of economic recovery is still …
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This paper investigates the impact of land inequality on conflict intensity. A fundamental distinction with the … only influences the intensity of the fight against a rebel group constituted by landless individuals. We show that conflict …
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The presence of conflict affects people's economic incentives. Some sectors of activity flourish, while others suffer …. For understanding structural problems in developing countries and designing appropriate post-conflict reconstruction … policies, it is essential to understand in what ways conflict affects the structure of the economy. We develop a simple model …
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in CCT (treated) in conflict affected regions benefit more (or less) than their counterparts in peaceful areas. To test … this, we combine longitudinal CCT data from Colombia with a conflict event dataset. This allows us to use standard … different groups and indicators of violence. We find that the CCT program had an extra benefit in conflict areas concerning …
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We test whether immigrants are more prone to support terror than natives because of lower opportunity costs, using the international World Values Survey data. We show that, in general, economically, politically and socially non-integrated persons are more likely to accept using violence for...
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inherent to a healthy commercial demeanor, in case of conflict, determines the studying of alternative settlement procedures …
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Ever since becoming a member state of the European Union, Romania had to adapt its internal laws so that the citizens of other EU member states, or those of other entities for which this right is acknowledged by Law 17/2014, stateless persons residing in these states and legal persons...
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on Israeli closures inside the West Bank, we provide new evidence on the labour market effects of conflict … was exogenous to local labour market conditions. In addition we use a measure of conflict intensity to control for the …
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We develop a framework for analyzing how the distribution of income-earning ability among citizens affects an autocrat’s extractive policies and her intended risk of war. Relying on a general equilibrium model, we show that (i) autocrats can utilize the military for redistribution and (ii) are...
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We study a model of war in which the outcome of the war is uncertain from the perspective of the involved countries not because of luck on the battlefield (as in standard models) but because of their lack of information about their opponents. In our model there are two countries characterized by...
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