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Privatization and economic strategy in Mozambique

Castel-Branco, Carlos; Cramer, Christopher; Hailu, Degol - 2001

Privatization, together with liberalization and deregulation, constituted the core of Mozambique's economic transition. Privatization in Mozambique has taken place on an unusually large scale in comparison with the rest of Africa. Privatization interacted with military demobilization and...

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Building new states: Lessons from Eritrea

Hansson, Göte - 2001

With the Derg's overthrow in 1991, Eritrea embarked on the construction of a new state. New economic institutions were created, and considerable reform undertaken. Problems in co-ordinating reform and reconstruction were largely avoided, mainly because of the institutional ‘clean slate’...

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Drought and civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa

Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphael - 2010

In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures used in the literature (rainfall and temperature) as it...

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Debt relief and civil war

Addison, Tony; Murshed, S. Mansoob - 2001

Of the 41 HIPCs, 11 are classified by the IMF and World Bank as conflict-affected. Can debt relief reduce the level of … violent conflict in these countries? By providing additional resources to finance broad-based public spending, debt relief … could help to redress the grievances that contribute to conflict. It could also reduce the ability of those motivated by …

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Ethiopia's financial sector and its regulation

Addison, Tony; Geda, Alemayehu - 2001

Angola and Mozambique), and suffered from intense conflict (leading to the fall of the Derg regime in 1991). The new …

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The fiscal dimensions of Ethiopia's transition and reconstruction

Bevan, David L. - 2001

In 1991, the new Government of Ethiopia faced a triple fiscal challenge. First, a major effort was required to overhaul and modernize the tax system. Second, the need to switch expenditure from military to civilian uses had to take place within a potentially severely reduced resource total. The...

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