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    Journal Article
    Kosovo and Timor-Leste
    – Neotrusteeship, Neighbors, and the United Nations
    Lise Morjé Howard - The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , 2014
    Part of Journal Special Issue Aid and Institution-Building in Fragile States
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    State-Building Through Neotrusteeship
    – Kosovo and East Timor in Comparative Perspective
    Lise Morjé Howard - UNU-WIDER , 2013 - Helsinki, Finland
    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 paper tests this hypothesis, and two related...
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    From the Editor’s Desk (October 2013)
    Tony Addison - UNU-WIDER , 2013 - Helsinki, Finland
    31 October 2013 Tony Addison October finds Angle in New York, for our event on ‘Fragility and Aid–What Works?’ at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN. Just before that we were in Copenhagen for the ReCom results meeting on ‘Challenges in Fragility and Governance’. At both meetings we met a...
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    Neotrusteeship in Post-Conflict States – Lessons from Kosovo and East Timor
    UNU-WIDER - UNU-WIDER , 2013 - Helsinki, Finland
    Kosovo and East Timor share many similar characteristics, and yet they have had divergent results in post-conflict state building. East Timor has enjoyed far greater development success since its independence, whereas Kosovo is now the poorest and most economically depressed country in Europe. Many...
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    Gender and Ethnicity in Fragile States
    – The Case of Post-Conflict Kosovo Part
    Sumon Kumar Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun - , 2011
    From the book: Fragile States
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    Vulnerability in Developing Countries
    Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, Mark McGillivray - UNU-WIDER , 2009 - Helsinki, Finland
    Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray The global economic crisis, which erupted about one year ago with the US sub-prime mortgage crisis and the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers, painfully reminds us on how vulnerable developing countries can be to external shocks...
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    Gender and Ethnicity in Post-Conflict Kosovo
    Sumon Kumar Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun - UNU-WIDER , 2008 - Helsinki, Finland
    The paper examines the comparative economic wellbeing of female- and male-headed households among Serbs and Albanians in post-conflict Kosovo. Evidence from the living standards measurement study (LSMS) household survey, 2001, shows that Serb households, both those headed by women and men, are worse...
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