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The World Development Report 2011 on conflict, security and development will look at conflict as a challenge to … to school, infants dying and mothers dying in childbirth in the developing world live in countries at risk or, affected …
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The World Development Report 2011 on conflict, security and development will look at conflict as a challenge to … to school, infants dying and mothers dying in childbirth in the developing world live in countries at risk or, affected …
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Corruption is bad for development. Leaving aside the morality of bribe taking, influence peddling, embezzlement, and … other abuses of power for personal or narrow group gain, corruption impedes investment and growth and exacerbates poverty … to larger collective ends includes the laws that form the core of norms and institutions. Corruption can never be …
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Somalia's history of conflict reveals an intriguing paradox--namely, many of the factors that drive armed conflict have also played a role in managing, ending, or preventing war. For instance, clannism and clan cleavages are a source of conflict--used to divide Somalis, fuel endemic clashes over...
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Those of us helping countries to build capacity to manage reconstruction after a conflict has ended need to be fully aware of the context in which we operate. Apart from the obvious destruction of infrastructure, presence of armed groups and difficult working conditions, there are several other...
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This report examines youth in post-conflict Burundi. The research responds to the nascent but growing body of knowledge on conflict, young men and gender. War and violence have devastated societies and economies throughout Africa with young men being the main perpetrators of this violence. This...
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Ensuring a safe environment for children to learn is more than a mission for the WorldBank. It is an urgent imperative. In large part, the success of our FCV Strategy is predicated on education. There are few spheres of development with so much potential to contribute to violence prevention and...
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series of case studies, it looks at how the World Bank has worked on FCV in middle-income countries, what the challenges have … been, and what has worked. It puts forward ideas on how the World Bank and other development actors can work more …
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