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      Civic legacies of wartime governance
      Patricia Justino, Wolfgang Stojetz - UNU-WIDER , 2019 - Helsinki, Finland
      In conflict zones around the world, both state and non-state actors deliver governance at local levels. This paper explores the long-term impact of individual exposure to ‘wartime governance’ on social and political behaviour. We operationalize wartime governance as the local policy choices and...
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      Journal Article This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
      Optimized reservoir operation model of regional wind and hydro power integration case study
      – Zambezi basin and South Africa
      Yohannes Gebretsadik, Charles Fant, Kenneth Strzepek, Channing Arndt - Applied Energy , 2016 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
      Part of Journal Special Issue Prospects for Renewable Energy in Africa
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      Journal Special Issue This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
      Climate Change and the Zambezi River Valley
      Finn Tarp, James S. Juana, Philip Ward - Climatic Change , 2015 - Dordrecht, Netherlands
      The articles in this special issue set forth a set of technical contributions that will improve the understanding of the impacts of climate change in developing countries. They are drawn from the Development Under Climate Change (DUCC) project carried out by UNU-WIDER of which the countries of the...
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      Foreign Aid, Resource Rents, and State Fragility in Mozambique and Angola
      Helena Pérez Niño, Philippe Le Billon - The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , 2014
      Part of Journal Special Issue Aid and Institution-Building in Fragile States
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      Foreign Aid, Resource Rents and Institution-Building in Mozambique and Angola
      Helena Pérez Niño, Philippe Le Billon - UNU-WIDER , 2013 - Helsinki, Finland
      Sharing similar colonial and post-independence civil war experiences, Mozambique and Angola’s development paths are often contrasted, with foreign aid-dependent Mozambique hailed a success compared to oil rentier Angola. This paper questions the so-called Mozambican miracle and contrasts it with...
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      Solving Africa’s Growth Puzzles
      – An Interview with Andy McKay
      Carl-Gustav Lindén - UNU-WIDER , 2013 - Helsinki, Finland
      25 February 2013 Andy McKay, professor of development economics at University of Sussex, discusses the motivating factors behind UNU-WIDER’s Growth and Poverty Project (GAPP) with Carl-Gustav Lindén, senior communications specialist at UNU-WIDER. In the GAPP project Africa’s growth, poverty and...
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      Does an Educated Mind Take the Broader View? A Field Experiment on In-group Favouritism among Microcredit Clients
      Ivar Kolstad, Arne Wiig - UNU-WIDER , 2012 - Helsinki, Finland
      A number of studies document an in-group bias in social dilemma situations. While group structure and dynamics are important in shaping in-group favouritism, less attention has been paid to individual characteristics affecting favouritism. Using data from dictator games conducted among 523...
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      Angola's Incomplete Transition
      Renato Aguilar - , 2003
      From the book: From Conflict to Recovery in Africa
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      From Conflict to Recovery?
      Tony Addison - , 2003
      From the book: From Conflict to Recovery in Africa
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      From Humanitarian Assistance to Poverty Reduction in Angola
      Mário Adauta de Sousa, Tony Addison, Björn Ekman, Åsa Stenman - , 2003
      From the book: From Conflict to Recovery in Africa
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      Angola's Incomplete Transition
      Renato Aguilar - UNU-WIDER , 2001 - Helsinki, Finland
      Angola’s difficulties in achieving macro-economic stability and economic liberalization have serious implications for private-sector development. Hyperinflation, and frequent policy reversal, constrain and distort investment in both the informal and formal parts of the private sector. But macro...
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      From Humanitarian Assistance to Poverty Reduction in Angola
      Mário Adauta de Sousa, Tony Addison, Björn Ekman, Åsa Stenman - UNU-WIDER , 2001 - Helsinki, Finland
      The list of illnesses afflicting Angolan society is a long one: political instability, civil war, macroeconomic mismanagement, and the desperation born of poverty. A profound sense of uncertainty afflicts all levels of society-the government (and its opponents), entrepreneurs and rural and urban...
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      A Land Cursed by its Wealth?
      – Angola's War Economy 1975-99
      Philippe Le Billon - UNU-WIDER , 1999 - Helsinki, Finland
      In Angola, the availability of two abundant resources (oil and diamonds) has prolonged the conflict beyond its Cold War context. The geography and political economy of these resources were crucial to the course taken by the conflict. Matching the regional and ethnic differentiation articulated by...
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