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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...
Book Chapter
Regional Cooperation and PeacePart of Book The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development
Working Paper
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...
Working Paper
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...
Working Paper
Indivisibility, Fairness, Farsightedness and their Implications for SecurityThis paper is concerned with the problems of achieving lasting peace. One dimension includes fairly sharing the post-war economic and political pie or the peace dividend. This requires post-war allocations that are envy free. Many peace agreements...
Working Paper
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 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...
Working Paper
Violence in PeaceA 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...
Working Paper
Policies towards Horizontal Inequalities in Post-Conflict ReconstructionThe 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...
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Ethics, Rhetoric and Politics of Post-conflict ReconstructionSince 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...
Working Paper
The Coherence of Democratic Peace-BuildingRecent attention has focused on the difficulties of establishing ‘coherence’ between humanitarian relief aid in complex emergencies and the objective of ending violent conflict. This paper introduces a parallel problem: absence of total synergy...
Journal Article
Impact of Terrorism on Investment Decisions of FarmersPart of Journal Special Issue Entrepreneurship and Conflict
Journal Special Issue
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...
Blog
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...
Blog
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...