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On the concept of 'village' in Northeastern Afghanistan: Explorations from Kunduz Province

Mielke, Katja - 2007

This paper discusses contesting notions of 'the local' in Northeastern Afghanistan's Kunduz province. Empirical …

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Conflict and entrepreneurial activity in Afghanistan: Findings from the national risk vulnerability assessment data

Ciarli, Tommaso; Parto, Saeed; Savona, Maria - 2010

The paper examines the relationship between conflict and entrepreneurial activity in Afghanistan, drawing upon a unique … data set, the National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment household survey 2005. Afghanistan is severely underdeveloped and … poor. Conflict has persisted in vast swathes of the country for decades, so that Afghanistan may be more appropriately …

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The National Solidarity Programme: Assessing the effects of community-driven development in Afghanistan

Beath, Andrew; Christia, Fotini; Enikolopov, Ruben - 2013

-driven development programme in Afghanistan that created democratic village councils and funded small-scale development projects. Using a …

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Militant Islam in Central Asia: The Case of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan

Naumkin, Vitaly V. - Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian … - 2003

such places as Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. In describing the rise of the IMU, the paper presents the IMU's early … Tajikistan and Afghanistan in 1999-2000. The author goes on to discuss the ideology of the IMU, first reviewing the roots of …

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Ethnic War, Holy War, War O' War: Does the Adjective Matter in Explaining Collective Political Violence?

Walker, Edward W. - Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian … - 2006

: Afghanistan since 1978, Tajikistan from 1992-1997, and Chechnya since 1994. …

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Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan: A Distribution-Sensitive Analysis of Household-Level Impacts

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR …

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Revisiting the Category of Fragile and Failed States in International Relations

Nuruzzaman, Mohammed - In: International Studies 46 (2009) 3, pp. 271-294

state fragility and failure, and critically reviews the current US strategies to rebuild the failed states of Afghanistan …

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A volatile interaction between peacebuilding priorities: road infrastructure (re)construction and land rights in Afghanistan

Unruh, Jon; Shalaby, Mourad - In: Progress in Development Studies 12 (2012) 1, pp. 47-61

two priorities for Afghanistan, and finds in their interaction a large and acute problem of land seizures which the …

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Coordination in crisis response and reconstruction

Calvi-Parisetti, Piero; Kiniger-Passigli, Donato - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002

Reviews the coordination mechanisms and structures for crisis response and reconstruction available within the UN system and elsewhere. Highlights the coordination challenge facing the ILO in tackling the adverse impact of crises on employment. Explores reasons behind the need for coordination...

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Weather, terrain and warfare: Coalition fatalities in Afghanistan

Carter, Timothy Allen; Veale, Daniel Jay - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 30 (2013) 3, pp. 220-239

in Afghanistan provides a useful opportunity to examine this relationship. Using this conflict, we test an argument about …

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