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That military expenditure and conflict have adverse consequences for development is unsurprising but important. The … without jeopardizing security interests. Military expenditure does not appear to be an effective deterrent of rebellion, and …, if it is reduced in a coordinated manner across a region then external security interests would be unaffected. The …
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external trade relations that characterize many developing states both before and after conflict. Assuming that peace will … function they serve - features that persist into peace. …
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development projects or peace missions. …While much of the literature studies causes and consequences of war, the reverberations of peace have rarely been … studied. By focusing on the universe of ceasefire agreements since 1993, we study the causal effect of peace on economic …
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Can a country achieve its development goals or, at least, its economic growth goals when it faces forty years of war … conditions on Angola's development, under circumstances of war, and speculates on Angola's immediate future. The article argues …
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The article discusses some of the economic effects of war in northern Mozambique. It indicates how the historical and structural features of the economy of northern Mozambique restricted post-war reconstruction and post-war poverty alleviation. These features include the dominance of only a few...
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This piece provides a Foreword to the new journal by the chair of Economics for Peace and Security. …
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military expenditure levels in sub-Saharan Africa have nonetheless increased, largely as a result of South African expenditure …. The article attempts to answer two questions. First, how can the budget of the security sector be allocated so as to … result in effective and efficient security outcomes? Second, how can an appropriate level of military expenditure for a …
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Provides an introduction to the symposium on Palestine
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/94 peace agreements, the study analyzes the forces that caused the fragility of the Palestinian Authority. These are: (1 … future peace agreement in order for the Palestinian Authority to be an effective entity that can promote economic progress …
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Dietrich Fischer reviews the cost of war as against the cost of war-prevention. But for all the good reasons of why peace is … cheaper than war, war nonetheless recurs. Jurgen Brauer examines why there seems to be so little peace - if it is so cheap to …
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