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, in South Africa), governments should strive to foster tertiary education in order to reduce conflict. Second, where … they matter for conflict mitigation in Africa. …) primary schooling broadly mitigates conflicts in Africa. However, in environments with high natural resource rents, it could …
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, in South Africa), governments should strive to foster tertiary education in order to reduce conflict. Second, where … they matter for conflict mitigation in Africa. …) primary schooling broadly mitigates conflicts in Africa. However, in environments with high natural resource rents, it could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380013
to reduce conflict intensity in Africa, policy makers should facilitate the urbanization of a great number of African … confirmed the core finding that all education dimensions are important in reducing conflict intensity in Africa but no … enrolment) on the intensity of intra-state conflicts in Africa during 1989-2008. It uses fixed-effects regressions in a panel …
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end of the conflict in eight villages to describe the characteristics of the returnees vis-a-vis those of non … conflict and are less involved in the production of cash crops. Even though returnees seem to face worse economic conditions …
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A two-year randomized evaluation shows that the effectiveness of multi-tasking men- tors on schooling outcomes …
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programs. -- Afghanistan ; food security ; conflict ; nutrition ; poverty ; spatial distribution … linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large … variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict across the country; surprisingly, food insecurity is not higher in conflict …
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; food security ; nutrition ; poverty ; quantile regression ; influence functions …
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This paper investigates the impact of rising food prices – during the 2007/08 global food crisis – on food security in Afghanistan. Exploiting the temporal stratification of a unique nationally-representative household survey, we find evidence of large declines in real per capita food...
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linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large … variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict across the country; surprisingly, food insecurity is not higher in conflict … conflict in the province where the household is located. We find robust evidence that households in provinces with higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104947
We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) estimator, based on influence functions to examine...
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