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– An Overview
This article presents an overview of the current special issue ‘Institutions and African Economies’. The findings include: (1) greater prevalence of democratic regimes improved both agricultural productivity and the overall growth of African economies, consistent with ‘new institutionalism’; (2)...
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– The Challenges in Development Aid
Based on analysing World Bank and other donor post-conflict reconstruction (PCR) loans and grants from rights-based, macroeconomic and microeconomic perspectives, we conclude that few PCR projects identify or address gender discrimination issues. Bank PCR investments hardly reflect Bank research...
Journal Article
– What Role for the African Regional Organizations in Peace and Security?
Part of Journal Special Issue
Conflict and Peace-building
Journal Article
Part of Journal Special Issue
Conflict and Peace-building
Journal Article
– The Sri Lankan Experience
Part of Journal Special Issue
Conflict and Peace-building
Journal Article
Part of Journal Special Issue
Conflict and Peace-building
Journal Article
Part of Journal Special Issue
Conflict and Peace-building
Journal Article
Part of Journal Special Issue
Conflict and Peace-building
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‘In a very real sense, the conditions that spawned the war and inflicted gruesome casualties on Sierra Leone’s citizens have not disappeared’, warned the International Crisis Group. In this paper we argue that many of those conditions are being recreated. The same old men who were responsible for...
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This article examines the external and internal dimensions of post-conflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone. The United Nations, bilateral donors such as the United Kingdom, and transnational non-governmental organizations and aid agencies have been instrumental in providing much-needed external...
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– the Sri Lankan Experience
Peace can generate an economic dividend, which can be further increased by appropriate economic reform. This dividend can in turn be used to raise popular support for conflict resolution measures along the road to achieving a final political settlement, a strategy that characterizes the recent...
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Agricultural development can contribute significantly to peace by raising incomes and employment, thereby reducing the social frustrations that give rise to violence. Agricultural growth also generates revenues for governments, allowing them to redress the grievances of disadvantaged populations. In...
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