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Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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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
Working Paper
Population Size, Per Capita Income, and the Risk of Civil War

A common finding in the empirical civil war literature is that population size and per capita income are highly significant predictors of civil war incidence and onset. This paper shows that the common finding of population size and per capita income...

  • Gross national product
  • Income distribution
  • Population
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...

  • Conflict management
  • Economic development
  • Economic policy
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Illegal Immigration, Human Trafficking, and Organized Crime

It is important to make a careful distinction between illegal immigration, human smuggling, and human trafficking which are nested, but yet different concepts. This distinction is relevant because these different categories of the illegal movement of...

  • Emigration and immigration
  • Human rights
  • Corruption
Policy Brief
A Recuperação de África após os Conflitos

Este resumo na área das políticas apresenta os resultados de um projecto do UNU/WIDER sobre a guerra e a reconstrução em África da autoria de Tony Addison, que se encontra actualmente publicado sob o nome de From Conflict to Recovery in Africa. Tal...

  • International relations
  • National security
  • Poverty
Policy Brief
Africa's Recovery from Conflict

This policy brief summarizes the results of a UNU/WIDER project on war and reconstruction in Africa directed by Tony Addison, which is now published as From Conflict to Recovery in Africa. As this study makes clear, peace is often elusive and...

  • International relations
  • National security
  • Poverty
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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...

  • Conflict management
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Households
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Entrepreneurship in Iraq: Understanding the Constraints
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by Sameeksha Desai November 2009

Sameeksha Desai Across countries, entrepreneurship is shown to support wealth and income generation, job creation and innovations in product and...

  • Conflict management
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Local history
Working Paper
Peace, Prosperity, and Pro-Growth Entrepreneurship

Support for entrepreneurship is widely seen as a mechanism to facilitate prosperity and peace in a growing number of post-conflict states. In this paper I critically evaluate this view. I argue that entrepreneurship is a ubiquitous quality in post...

  • Economic development
  • Entrepreneurship
  • National security
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Spatial Horizontal Inequality and the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal

The Maoist insurgency in Nepal is one of the highest intensity internal conflicts in recent times. Investigation into the causes of the conflict would suggest that grievance rather than greed is the main motivating force. The concept of horizontal or...

  • Equality and inequality
  • Insurgency
  • Regional economics
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Nationalism and development in Asia

This paper identifies historic patterns in the dialectic between nationalism and development across various East, South, and Southeast Asian nations. Nationalism as the rationale for development is used by regimes to achieve high levels of growth...

  • War
  • Colonialism
  • Nationalism
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Early life shocks and mental health

This paper provides causal evidence on early-life exposure to war on mental health status in adulthood. Using an instrumental variable strategy, the evidence indicates that early-life exposure to bombing during the American war in Vietnam has long...

  • Health outcomes
  • War
  • Mental health
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War, Hunger and Flight

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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War, Hunger, and Displacement

This paper uses econometric methods and case-study evidence to examine the political economy of complex humanitarian emergencies, multidimensional crises characterized by warfare, state violence, disease, hunger, and displacement. We emphasize that...

  • Agriculture
  • Conflict management
  • Income distribution
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Humanitarian Emergencies and Warlord Economies in Liberia and Sierra Leone

This paper explains correlations between humanitarian emergencies and political economies of 'failing states' in Liberia and Sierra Leone. In both, Cold War era rulers acquired personal power through their influence over economic exchange...

  • Failed states
  • Natural resources
  • Economic power
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Humanitarian Emergencies

This Research in Progress report is divided into two parts. Part I studies the operationalization and indicators of the different elements of complex humanitarian emergencies. It includes discussions of what to try to measure when looking into the...

  • Malnutrition
  • Population
  • Quantitative research methodology
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