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The recent history of Zaire presents a unique opportunity to understand and explain humanitarian emergencies. This monograph follows an inductive approach in analysing the trajectory of state-building in Zaire as a significant explanatory variable of...

• Humanitarian assistance
• Political science
• Poverty

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• Agriculture and state
• Central planning
• Famine

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The substantive role that vitamin and mineral deficiencies play in shaping crisis-related morbidity and mortality was not widely understood when Amartya Sen elaborated his arguments about moral rights of the hungry, entitlements, and public action...

• Food security
• Food supply
• Humanitarian assistance

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• Famine
• Marketing (Farm produce)
• Food supply

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The study proceeded by broadly categorizing the various defects of the economy as manifestations of two disequilibria in the system. The first disequilibrium pertains to the internal imbalances as reflected mainly by the stagnation in economic growth...

• Balance of payments
• Famine
• Structural adjustment (Economic policy)

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• Famine
• Marketing (Farm produce)
• Food supply

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This paper provides a beginning toward explaining why humanitarian emergencies have been so substantial in the post-cold war era, a period expected to be less violent. The humanitarian emergencies of the contemporary period tend to be state-centred...

• Democratization
• Economic development
• Humanitarian assistance

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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

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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

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The paper studies the experience of Ethiopia with regard to the two major famines the country has witnessed in the last fifteen years. It is argued that the entitlements approach developed by Amartya Sen provides a useful analytical framework within...

• Agriculture
• Marketing (Farm produce)
• Famine

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• Food industry and trade
• Food security
• Humanitarian assistance

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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

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The Age of Humanitarian Emergencies makes an effort to define and operationalize a humanitarian emergency. After having discussed extensively definitions related to collective violence, especially genocide and civil war, the paper opts for a more...

• Humanitarian assistance
• Hunger
• Natural disasters

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by Malokele Nanivazo April 2012

Malokele Nanivazo Sexual violence crime (SV) in wartime is not a new phenomenon. Mass rapes have occurred in armed conflicts in Rwanda, Kosovo...

• Crime
• Education
• Humanitarian assistance

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Current approaches of measuring vulnerability to natural hazards generally use a rather static perspective that focuses on a single point in time—often before a hazardous event occurs. In contrast, the paper argues that vulnerability assessment...

• Humanitarian assistance
• Natural disasters
• Poverty measurement

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The paper examines the imperative for improved classification and analysis of food crises in different fragile contexts. Recognizing the persistence and protracted nature of food crises, the paper questions how prevention and response mechanisms...

• Food security
• Humanitarian assistance
• Institutional economics