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Conflict and development: Recent research advances and future agendasWe survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where academic research has started to establish stylized facts and where methodological and knowledge gaps remain...
Conflict Violence WarWorking Paper
Do fences make good neighbours?: Evidence from an insurgency in IndiaIndia has employed a variety of military, political, and economic measures to combat the long running insurgency in Kashmir with little evidence on what contributes to stability in the region...
Conflict Violence GovernanceBook Chapter
The World Bank’s Health Projects in Timor-Leste: The Political Economy of Effective AidFrom the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aidBook Chapter
Education from the Bottom Up: UNICEF’s Education Programme in SomaliaFrom the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aidBook Chapter
Impact Assessment of the Facilitadores Judiciales Programme in NicaraguaFrom the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aidBook Chapter
Liberia’s Gender-Sensitive Police Reform: Improving Representation and Responsiveness in a Post-Conflict SettingFrom the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aidBook Chapter
‘Embedded’ Assistance: Finn Church Aid’s Secondment in SomaliaFrom the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aidBook Chapter
The Yemen Social Fund for Development: An Effective Community-Based Approach amid Political InstabilityFrom the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aidBook Chapter
The National Solidarity Programme: Assessing the Effects of Community-Driven Development in AfghanistanFrom the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aidBook Chapter
Good Aid in Hard Places: Learning from ‘Successful’ Interventions in Fragile SituationsFrom the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aidBook
Development Assistance for PeacebuildingThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at www.tandfebooks.com and offered as a free PDF download from Taylor & Francis Group and selected open access locations...
Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aidBlog
Missing school years for girls: The case of the Assam insurgency
Girls in India face many challenges. From the moment they are conceived, they are less likely to be born as compared to boys. This presence of “missing girls” appears to be linked to access to ultrasound technology ...
Education ConflictJournal Article
The economic effects of a counterinsurgency policy in India: A synthetic control analysisUsing the synthetic control method, we analyze the economic effects of a unique counterinsurgency response to the Naxalite insurgency in India...
Synthetic control method Conflict Naxalite insurgencyWorking Paper
Tax revenue mobilization in conflict-affected developing countriesHow does conflict affect tax revenue mobilization? This paper uses a newly updated dataset to explore longitudinal trends of tax revenue mobilization prior to, during, and after conflict periods in a selection of conflict-affected states since 1980...
Tax ConflictBlog
How did South Sudan get stuck in a fragility trap?
In my last blog I wrote about the common factors at play in political and economic transitions. Using the case of South Sudan, I demonstrated how these factors laid the groundwork for a fragility trap. In this post, I explain what this means...
Conflict Fragile statesBlog
Common factors in conflict-induced state fragility What does it mean to be a fragile state?...
Conflict Fragile states