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Jobs Drive Development: An interview with Martin Rama
15 January 2013Martin Rama from The World bank discusses the process behind the World Development Report 2013 on jobs, which he directed.He emphasises...
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Regional Cooperation and PeacePart of Book The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development
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Development programmes, security, and violence reduction: Evidence from an insurgency in IndiaImplementing development programmes in conflict-affected areas is crucial for conflict as well as poverty reduction. The big question is how do you...
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Crime, Isolation, and Law EnforcementThis paper investigates the relationship between criminal activity and geographical isolation. Using data from Madagascar, we show that, after we control for population composition and risk factors, crime increases with distance from urban centers...
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The vital role of aid in developmentThe UNU-WIDER research programme on foreign aid (ReCom) began in 2010, in a period of strong aid scepticism. Dambisa Moyo’s well-known book, Dead Aid...
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Civil War in Developing CountriesPrevious UNU-WIDER research has shown that the risk of internal conflict is high in low-income societies rich in natural resources and characterised by ethnic fragmentation. Yet for each country in conflict there are many others with similar...
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Conflict and Peace-buildingReconstruction from conflict is a complex and demanding task, and a major challenge for the UN system as well as the wider donor community. National authorities and their donor partners are faced with multiple priorities - rebuilding infrastructure...
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Vulnerability in DevelopmentThe six papers in this Special Issue to provide insights into advances in conceptualizing and measuring vulnerability, in particularly household vulnerability to poverty and country and regional vulnerability to external shocks. All of the papers...
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Fragility and Development in Small Island Developing StatesIn recent years there is a growing concern within the international donor community regarding the plight of a special group of countries labeled as 'Fragile States'. These states, which according to current donor lists currently numbers more than 40...
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Entrepreneurship and ConflictEntrepreneurs are often adversely affected by violent conflict such as civil war. At the same time though entrepreneurs may contribute to or even benefit from violent conflict and other ‘destructive’ and ‘unproductive’ activities that limit economic...
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Impact of Terrorism on Investment Decisions of FarmersPart of Journal Special Issue Entrepreneurship and Conflict
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Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Violent Conflict in Developing CountriesThis study surveys the small but growing field of entrepreneurship and conflict in developing countries, which is also the topic of this special issue of the Journal of Small business and Entrepreneurship. We review recent contributions on how mass...
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Entrepreneurship in Iraq: Understanding the Constraints
Sameeksha Desai Across countries, entrepreneurship is shown to support wealth and income generation, job creation and innovations in product and...
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Conflict and Entrepreneurship in AfghanistanTommaso Ciarli, Saeed Parto and Maria Savona Afghanistan remains one of the poorest countries in the world with an estimated per capita income of 300...
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Can Entrepreneurship Make Peace Work?Tony Addison and Tilman Brück There is a special role for entrepreneurship to play in making peace work. The recently published UNU-WIDER study...
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The economics of counterinsurgencyPresent in India since the 1960s, the Naxalite insurgency has steadily spread across the country. Counterinsurgency measures lagged behind and did not follow any systematic process till the early 2000s with the exception of Andhra Pradesh, which in...
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The Political Economy of Fragile StatesFragile states have very mixed characteristics. Some are experiencing violent conflict, some are ‘post-conflict’, some have avoided large-scale violence–so far. Many are resource poor, but some are resource rich. Many are landlocked, but certainly...
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Guinea-BissauIn June 1998, Guinea-Bissau was thrown into conflict by a military revolt. This led to 11 months of fighting, extensive loss of life, and the displacement of up to a third of the country's population. This paper discusses the political economy of the...
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Human Rights and the Prevention of Humanitarian EmergenciesThis paper defines a role for human rights and human rights workers in the discussion of humanitarian emergencies. The approach is to look at how human rights law, monitoring, and information can be useful in two ways: (1) to warn of an impending...
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War, Hunger and FlightThis paper uses econometric methods and case-study evidence to examine the political economy of complex humanitarian emergencies, multidimensional crises characterized by warfare, disease, hunger, and displacement. We find that stagnation and decline...
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War, Hunger, and DisplacementThis paper uses econometric methods and case-study evidence to examine the political economy of complex humanitarian emergencies, multidimensional crises characterized by warfare, state violence, disease, hunger, and displacement. We emphasize that...
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Reconstruction from Breakdown in Northeastern IndiaThe northeast region of India remains fraught with severe violence, poor growth and acute frustration among its youth. Success of policies to resolve the region’s crisis has proved less than encouraging. What could be the way out of the violence–poor...
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The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict ReconstructionBased on analysing World Bank and other donor post-conflict reconstruction (PCR) loans and grants from rights-based, macroeconomic and microeconomic perspectives, we conclude that few PCR projects identify or address gender discrimination issues...
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By How Much Does Conflict Reduce Financial Development?Financial development is vulnerable to social conflict. Conflict reduces the demand for domestic currency as a medium of exchange and a store of value. Conflict also leads to poor quality governance, including weak regulation of the financial system...
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Predicting Violence within GenocidesCan we predict when and where violence will break out within cases of genocide? Given often weak political will to respond, knowing where to strategically prioritize limited resources is valuable information for international decision makers...
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From Conflict to Recovery in Africa
by Tony Addison The period 1990-2000 saw 19 major armed-conflicts in Africa, ranging from civil wars to the 1998-2000 war between Eritrea and Ethiopia...
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Conflict and Financial Reconstruction
by Tony Addison The last ten years or so have seen 56 major armed conflicts in 44 different locations, most of them civil wars. Different types of...
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How Do We Prevent War and State Murderby E. Wayne Nafziger and Raimo Väyrynen Since the end of the cold war, civil wars and state violence have escalated, resulting in millions of deaths...
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Stangers in Their Own Land
by Francis M. Deng O ver the last decade, the international community has been confronted with the global crisis of internal displacement, involving...
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From the Editor's Desk (January 2013)
Tony Addison We start the new year at a fast pace, preparing for the ReCom results meeting on ‘Aid and the Social Sectors’ in Stockholm on 13th March...
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From the Editor's Desk (April 2013)
30 April 2013 Tony Addison As April closes, our thoughts turn to UNU-WIDER’s spring/summer programme. And it’s a busy one. June sees us back in...
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From the Editor's Desk (March 2013)
Tony Addison This month saw UNU-WIDER in Stockholm for the ReCom results meeting on ‘aid and the social sectors’, which took place at Sida on 13 March...
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Development Assistance for PeacebuildingDevelopment assistance to fragile states and conflict-affected areas can be a core component of peacebuilding, providing support for the restoration of government functions, delivery of basic services, the rule of law and economic revitalization...
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Good Aid in Hard PlacesPart of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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The Yemen Social Fund for DevelopmentPart of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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Substantial but Uneven AchievementPart of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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‘Embedded’ AssistancePart of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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Liberia's Gender-Sensitive Police ReformPart of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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Impact Assessment of the Facilitadores Judiciales Programme in NicaraguaPart of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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Education from the Bottom UpPart of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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Aid, Employment and Inclusive Growth in Conflict-Affected CountriesThe experience and lessons of the last two decades have shown that ignoring the key differences between the economics of peace and the economics of development has been a major reason why countries relapse into conflict. This paper briefly analyses...
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Aid to Support Fragile StatesThis special issue has its origins in work conducted under the Governance and Fragility theme of UNU-WIDER’s ReCom - Research and Communication on Foreign Aid programme (2011–13), and particularly the work on ‘Aid and Institution-building in Fragile...
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Private Military Companies from Renaissance Italy to Modern Day Afghanistan
Jurgen Brauer Military contractors - condottiere - and their men were not welcome anywhere in Renaissance Europe. No one enjoyed the presence of these...
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Conflict Prevention: Tackling Horizontal Inequalities
by Frances Stewart The number of humanitarian emergencies has been escalating since the early 1990s. Between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s...
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