Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) indicates that external democracy support can help … mitigate the destabilising effects of post-conflict demo¬cratisation. Since the 1990s, democracy support has been integral to … that have embarked on a process of democratisation after civil war: Can democracy support help to mitigate destabilising …

through the extension of franchise. This is because democracy always implements a highly redistributive fiscal policy, which … makes fighting hard incentive-compatible for the citizens-soldiers. We show that a transition to democracy is more likely to …

This book examines the impact of political conflict on microfinance engagement to put forth a theory of sparse network … traps. It leverages a natural experiment to distinguish between the effects of conflict on determinants of microfinance … efficiancy and impact, and includes qualitative evidence from 235 interviews from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Liberia …