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conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers … drought-induced conflict. One key mechanism is that insured pastoralists travel less far away from their ancestral homelands … to mitigate conflict beyond difficult institutional reforms and raises the question of how governments can support the …
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After more than half a century of armed conflict, Colombia is moving towards a post-conflict period. National and …
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After more than half a century of armed conflict, Colombia is moving towards a post-conflict period. National and …
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the internal conflict, the fiscal consequences of the 1991 Constitution and huge fiscal commitments related to pensions …
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the internal conflict, the fiscal consequences of the 1991 Constitution and huge fiscal commitments related to pensions …
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In this paper interactions between finance, development and armed conflict are explored to demonstrate that financial … factors are crucial in sustaining conflict-underdevelopment feedback loops. Military expenditure drains resources, financial … instability leads to conflict (and vice versa), war retards the development of financial institutions/infrastructure, and …
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Is the European nation-state system more favorable to economic growth than the united-empire system in ancient China? This paper develops an endogenous-growth model to analyze the conditions under which economic growth is higher under political fragmentation than political unification. Under...
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data as measured by orbital satellites and conflict data spatially mapped to latitude and longitude coordinates. Using a … fighting declines significantly once a conflict begins; neighboring countries also experience large negative effects. The …
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dataset for terrorist events, and datasets of external and internal conflict. We explore these data with cross-sectional and … that associated with either external wars or internal conflict. As well, terrorism is associated with a redirection of …
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