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Pakistan's internal conflict and Pakistan-India conflict on the health of people in Pakistan is analyzed during 1972 …The immediate health cost of violent armed conflict is in the form of deaths and injuries of the combatants as well as …-2004. Pakistan's internal conflict and the conflict with India during 1972-2004 are minor violent and non-violent/latent conflicts …
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We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is … beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other group. Since confict disrupts trade, the onset of a conflict signals … after each conflict episode. Third, accidental conflicts that do not reflect economic fundamentals can lead to a permanent …
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, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …
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fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements. …
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concomitance between so-called 'natural' hazard/disaster and conflict situations. Over 150 natural disasters have occurred … alongside complex political crises in the past seven years alone. Yet, the fields of conflict and disaster research remain … conflict and disaster. We exploit a large panel dataset that includes official development aid, and information about the …
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from the Rose [2004] dataset, the ITERATE dataset for terrorist events, and datasets of external and internal conflict. We … of terrorism, as well as internal and external conflict is equivalent to as much as a 30 percent tariff on trade. This is …
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We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a … positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and … that affect conflict, including measures of trade and democracy. …
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I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized … of organized conflict and violence are aggregated. …
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variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war … reduces annual growth by .01 to .13 percentage points, and high-intensity interstate conflict reduces annual growth by .18 to …
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Ethno-Linguistic Affinity, I show that civil conflict in Africa is likely to spill over between contiguous ethno …
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