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We show that the recent rise in Afghan opium production is caused by violent conflicts. Violence destroys roads and irrigation, crucial to alternative crops, and weakens local incentives to rebuild infrastructure and enforce law and order. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western...
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The encounter with insurgency violence in Iraq and Afghanistan has pressed the US Department of Defense to improve the … Afghanistan, in which the US mili-tary is carrying out holistic civil governance reform projects. Whether such work will become a …
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The drugs economy has been an important part of the story of borderland transformation in Afghanistan. Because of drugs … district on the Afghan-Tajik border in the north-east Afghanistan. It does this through a fine grained historical analysis of …
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We show that the recent rise in Afghan opium production is caused by violent conflicts. Violence destroys roads and irrigation, crucial to alternative crops, and weakens local incentives to rebuild infrastructure and enforce law and order. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275898
Policy makers and practitioners in Afghanistan tend to favor interventions promoting high value agricultural activities … ex-ante impact assessment of livestock-based interventions in crop-livestock systems in northern Afghanistan. The dynamic …
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agreement on the management of the situation for interpreters and other locally employed in Afghanistan' (Tolkeaftalen) by the … academic analyses, policy reports, a recent joint Danish government evaluation of the evacuation from Afghanistan, and …
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activity rely on formal sector data. Using high-frequency data from Afghanistan, this paper assesses how surges in conflict …
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the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. Quasi-experimental evidence demonstrates that battlefield … casualties increase the news coverage of Afghanistan and the public demand for withdrawal. Evidence from a survey experiment …
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This paper critically examines the shortcomings of post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan from 2001 to …, neglected the importance of customary authority structures, and treated Afghanistan as a blank slate for experimentation. Such … messy realities of fostering legitimate governance in fragile contexts. The hard-earned lessons from Afghanistan's recent …
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The increasing impact of natural disasters (floods, earthquakes, landslides, and avalanches) in Afghanistan, notably …
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