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Civil War in Developing Countries

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
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Conflict and Peace-building

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
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Vulnerability in Development

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
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Fragility and Development in Small Island Developing States

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
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Entrepreneurship and Conflict

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
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The economics of counterinsurgency

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 industries
  • Credit
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The vital role of aid in development
by Rachel M. Gisselquist, Sam Jones June 2019

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 effectiveness
  • Aid policy
  • Conflict management
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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...

  • Conflict management
  • Economic development
  • Economic policy
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Predicting Violence within Genocides

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
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Violence in Peace

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
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Policies towards Horizontal Inequalities in Post-Conflict Reconstruction

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
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Ethics, Rhetoric and Politics of Post-conflict Reconstruction

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
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The Coherence of Democratic Peace-Building

Recent 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...

  • Conflict management
  • Democratization
  • National security
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Indivisibility, Fairness, Farsightedness and their Implications for Security

This 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...

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  • Economic development
  • National security
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Impact of Terrorism on Investment Decisions of Farmers

Part of Journal Special Issue Entrepreneurship and Conflict

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  • Conflict management
  • Investments
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Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Violent Conflict in Developing Countries

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...

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  • Entrepreneurship
  • Households
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