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Insecurity and industrial organization : evidence from Afghanistan

Blumenstock, Joshua; Ghani, Tarek; Herskowitz, Sylvan; … - 2018

One-fifth of the world's population lives in countries affected by fragility, violence and conflict, impeding long-term economic growth. However, little is known about how firms respond to local changes in security, partly because of the difficulty of measuring firm activity in these settings....

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Food insecurity and rising food prices : what do we learn from experiential measures?

Jolliffe, Dean; Seff, Ilana; De La Fuente, Alejandro - 2018

Throughout many countries in the world, the measurement of food security currently includes accounting for the importance of perception and anxiety about meeting basic food needs. Using panel data from Malawi, this paper shows that worrying about food security is linked to self-reports of having...

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Quantifying the impacts of capturing territory from the government in the Republic of Yemen

Tandon, Sharad - 2018

This paper estimates the welfare change arising from the capture of the Republic of Yemen's capital in 2014, using a multi-themed household survey conducted as the capital was captured. Despite the little violence in this setting, the increase in fragility resulted in a large decline in...

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Public-Private Dialogue in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations : Experiences and Lessons Learned

World Bank Group - 2014

Public-private dialogue (PPD) is highly necessary in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS) to fill the gap resulting from the lack of legitimate institutions, to help create transparency and trust among stakeholders, and to identify the need for reforms and interventions that can...

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Fragile States : Securing Development

Zoellick, Robert B. - 2008

Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank, discussed the following priorities: (i) understanding fragile states; (ii) building legitimacy of the state; (iii) security; (iv) rule of law and the legal order; (v) local and national ownership; (vi) economic stability, as a foundation for growth...

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Sifting through the Data : Labor Markets in Haiti through a Turbulent Decade (2001-2012)

Scot, Thiago - 2016

In Latin America, labor markets have been the main channel through which growth has reduced poverty, with higher labor income accounting for 49 percent of the reduction in poverty in 2008-13. Understanding labor markets is critical to designing policies and programs aimed at reducing poverty....

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Second-Stage Sampling for Conflict Areas : Methods and Implications

Himelein, Kristen - 2016

The collection of survey data from war zones or other unstable security situations is vulnerable to error because conflict often limits the implementation options. Although there are elevated risks throughout the process, this paper focuses specifically on challenges to frame construction and...

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Madagascar Economic Update, March 2011 : Aid Effectiveness during Political Instability - A Look at Social Sectors

World Bank - 2011

In Madagascar, donors have traditionally counted for almost half of the government's budget and have been, by far, the main source of funding in social sectors. Since the beginning of the crisis, official aid toward education, health, and social protection surged, reaching almost US

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Does MENA's Governance Lead to Spatial Agglomeration and Disparities?

Ganiou Mijiyawa, Abdoul - 2011

In this paper the author analyze the link between spatial agglomeration, spatial disparities and political governance with an emphasis on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The agglomeration index and the urban-rural consumption ratio are used respectively as a measurement of...

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Corruption and country size : evidence using firm-level survey data

Amin, Mohammed; Yew Chong Soh - 2019

What sorts of conditions make some countries more prone to corruption than the others? This is an important question … for understanding how corruption arises and how to combat it. The present paper attempts to answer this question by … exploring the link between the size of the country and corruption. Economic theory suggests advantages and disadvantages of …

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