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by Carl-Gustav Lindén January 2013

15 January 2013Martin Rama from The World bank discusses the process behind the World Development Report 2013 on jobs, which he directed.He emphasises...

• Conflict management
• Economic development
• Equality and inequality

Book Chapter

Part of Book The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development

• Conflict management
• Regional economics
• Regional planning

Blog

Implementing development programmes in conflict-affected areas is crucial for conflict as well as poverty reduction. The big question is how do you...

• Conflict management
• Development
• Poverty reduction

Working Paper

This 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...

• Conflict management
• Justice, Administration of
• Regional economics

Blog

The 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...

• Aid effectiveness
• Aid policy
• Conflict management

Journal Special Issue

Previous 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...

• Conflict management
• War

Journal Special Issue

Reconstruction 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...

• Conflict management
• Economic development
• National security

Journal Special Issue

The 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...

• Conflict management
• Poverty
• Poverty measurement

Journal Special Issue

In 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...

• Conflict management
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• International business enterprises

Journal Special Issue

Entrepreneurs 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...

• Conflict management
• Economic development
• Entrepreneurship

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Entrepreneurship and Conflict

• Agriculture
• Conflict management
• Investments

Journal Special Issue

This 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...

• Conflict management
• Entrepreneurship
• Households

Blog

by Sameeksha Desai November 2009

Sameeksha Desai Across countries, entrepreneurship is shown to support wealth and income generation, job creation and innovations in product and...

• Conflict management
• Entrepreneurship
• Local history

Blog

Tommaso Ciarli, Saeed Parto and Maria Savona Afghanistan remains one of the poorest countries in the world with an estimated per capita income of 300...

• Conflict management
• Economic development
• Entrepreneurship

Blog

Tony Addison and Tilman Brück There is a special role for entrepreneurship to play in making peace work. The recently published UNU-WIDER study...

• Economic policy (Business enterprises)
• Commercial policy
• Conflict management

Journal Article

Present 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...

• Conflict management
• Construction sector
• Credit

Book Chapter

Fragile 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...

• Conflict management
• Failed states
• International relations

Working Paper

• Conflict management
• Economic development
• Game theory

Working Paper

In 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...

• Conflict management
• Public debt
• Economic assistance and foreign aid

Working Paper

This 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...

• Conflict management
• Human rights
• Humanitarian assistance

Working Paper

• Conflict management
• Economic development
• Fiscal policy

Working Paper

This 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...

• Conflict management
• Food security
• Humanitarian assistance

Working Paper

This 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...

• Agriculture
• Conflict management
• Income distribution

Working Paper

The 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...

• Conflict management
• Economic development
• Government accountability

Working Paper

Based 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...

• Conflict management
• Economic development projects
• Equality and inequality

Working Paper

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...

• Conflict management
• Economic development
• Economic policy

Working Paper

Can 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...

• Conflict management
• National security
• Social conflict

Blog

by Tony Addison 2002

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...

• Conflict management
• Equality and inequality
• Institutional economics

Blog

by Tony Addison 2002

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...

• Central banking
• Conflict management
• Financial institutions

Blog

by 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...

• Conflict management
• War

Blog

by Francis M. Deng 2002

by Francis M. Deng O ver the last decade, the international community has been confronted with the global crisis of internal displacement, involving...

• Conflict management
• Humanitarian assistance

Blog

by Tony Addison 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...

• Economic development
• Industrialization
• Conflict management

Blog

by Tony Addison 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...

• Economic development
• Conflict management
• Economic assistance and foreign aid

Blog

by Tony Addison 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...

• Decision making (Finance, Public)
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Agriculture

Journal Special Issue

Development 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...

• Conflict management
• Economic development
• Economic assistance

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

• Conflict management
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

• Conflict management
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development projects

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

• Conflict management
• Economic development
• Macroeconomics

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

• Conflict management
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Human rights

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

• Aeronautics
• Conflict management
• Economic assistance and foreign aid

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

• Conflict management
• Justice, Administration of

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

• Aggregation operators
• Conflict management
• Education

Working Paper

The 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...

• Agriculture
• Conflict management
• Economic development

Journal Special Issue

This 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...

• Conflict management
• Economic assistance and foreign aid

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid to Support Fragile States

• Conflict management
• Economic assistance and foreign aid

Blog

by Jurgen Brauer July 2009

Jurgen Brauer Military contractors - condottiere - and their men were not welcome anywhere in Renaissance Europe. No one enjoyed the presence of these...

• Conflict management
• Economics

Book Chapter

Part of Book Wider Perspectives on Global Development

• Conflict management
• Economic development
• Equality and inequality

Blog

by Frances Stewart 1999

by Frances Stewart The number of humanitarian emergencies has been escalating since the early 1990s. Between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s...

• Conflict management
• Equality and inequality
• Humanitarian assistance

Blog

by Stephen Browne 1999

by Stephen BrowneEvery ‘conflict country’ is a special case. What distinguishes Rwanda is the intensity of human destruction to which the country...

• Conflict management
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• War

Blog

by Tony Addison 1999

by Tony Addison War has destroyed the lives and hopes of millions of Africans. It poses major challenges to the United Nations system and to the wider...

• Conflict management
• Economic growth
• Institutional economics

Book

Establishing peace and reconstructing Africa's war-damaged economies are urgent challenges. For Africa to recover, communities must reconstruct, private sectors must revitalize, and states must transform themselves. Thus, unless communities rebuild...

• Conflict management
• National security
• War

Book

Since the mid-1980s there have been substantial cuts in military spending throughout the world, with the exception of Pacific Asia. The end of the Cold War, democratization in Africa and Latin America, structural adjustment programmes, debts and cuts...

• Conflict management
• National security
• War

Book Chapter

Part of Book Governing Globalization

• Conflict management
• Economic development
• Financial institutions, International

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Civil War in Developing Countries

• Conflict management
• War

Working Paper

Why do some states, with foreign assistance, transition from ‘fragile’ to ‘robust?’ Scholars in state-building have argued that neotrusteeship is an effective strategy by which external organizations might build post-conflict states. This working...

• Conflict management
• Crime
• Economic assistance and foreign aid

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Conflict and Peace-building

• Conflict management
• War

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Explaining Violent Conflict

• Conflict management
• Fiscal policy
• Law and legislation (Natural resources)

Blog

by Roger Williamson October 2013

30 October 2013 Roger Williamson The UNU-WIDER meeting held last week in New York on the topic of fragility and aid argued forcefully that you cannot...

• Agriculture
• Budget
• Conflict management

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Spatial Issues in Africa

• Conflict management
• Justice, Administration of
• Regional economics

Research Brief

Fragile and conflict-affected states, like Sierra Leone, can maintain a strong public financial management structure if they are able to find foreign support for administrative capacity and sufficient domestic political and executive support. PFM...

• Conflict management
• Economic policy
• Fiscal policy

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Explaining Violent Conflict

• Conflict management
• Economic conditions
• Global warming

Working Paper

A key issue for development in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has been an escalation of violence during post-conflict transitions. A long-term goal for international donor involvement is to assist in building legitimate and...

• Conflict management
• Economic development
• International agencies

Working Paper

The design of policies towards countries where major conflicts have ended is becoming a major issue in the development agenda partly because of the numbers of countries where such policy is relevant and partly because their situation tends to be...

• Conflict management
• Economic policy
• Equality and inequality

Working Paper

Since existing injustices and the quest for justice are seen to be the main causes for violent clashes, it is often claimed that the restoration of justice must be the most important goal of post-conflict reconstruction. However, the current policy...

• Conflict management
• Justice, Administration of
• Economic power