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Redistributive impacts of civil war : the case of Côte d'Ivoire

Hlásny, Vladimír - 2023

Many of the world's LDCs are plagued by recurring conflict. Conflict impedes sustainable development through various channels, creating conditions conducive to further conflict. Conflict has redistributive impacts, particularly when it erupts in resource-rich countries. Between 2002 and 2011,...

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The Role of Freedom, Growth and Religion in the Taste for Revolution

MacCulloch, Robert; Pezzini, Silvia - 2005

Property rights, whose security is often threatened by civil conflict, are a necessary condition for the establishment of a market economy. Yet a fundamental and unresolved empirical question is whether the lack of political and civil freedoms is one of the root causes of greater insecurity....

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The Role of Freedom, Growth and Religion in the Taste for Revolution

MacCulloch, Robert; Pezzini, Silvia - 2002

A fundamental question about the determinants of civil conflict is the relative importance of political freedoms versus economic development. This paper takes a new approach to provide an answer by using micro-data based on surveys of revolutionary tastes of 130,000 people living in 61 nations...

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Reassessing the Moral Economy : Religion and Economic Ethics from Ancient Greece to the 20th Century

Skambraks, Tanja (ed.); Lutz, Martin (ed.) - 2023

economic ethics, urban social politics during the Plague, the Jesuit mission in Paraguay, the Ottoman Empire, religion in … religion and economy (Franziska Quaas) -- Chapter 3. Between Pietas and Usury. Dynamics of a Moral Economy in the Middle Ages …) -- Part 3: Modern Period.-Chapter 9. Negotiating Religion, Moral Economy and Economic Ideas in the Late Ottoman Empire …

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Civil conflict, democratization, and growth : violent democratization as critical juncture

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 116 (2014) 2, pp. 482-505

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The Economic Impact of Armed Conflict in Rwanda

Lopez, Humberto - 2013

The human, social and economic costs of Rwanda`s genocide have been staggering. The losses in life cannot be reversed and the psychological impact of the violence will take a long time to heal. The country has made remarkable progress over the last 10 years to get back to where it would have...

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Violent Conflict and Prospects of Economic Growth in Pakistan

Tasneem, Naila - 2015

Many economies around the world have experienced political, social and economic turbulence post the financial crisis in 2007-08. Pakistan also continues to experience an economic downturn accompanied by low saving and investment levels, tax revenues and deterioration in human capital,...

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Why do some poor countries see armed conflict while others do not? : a dual sector approach

Vestby, Jonas; Buhaug, Halvard; Uexkull, Nina von - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 138 (2021), pp. 1-9

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MENA Economies Hit by Conflicts, Civil Wars, and Lower Oil Prices

Mottaghi, Lili - 2015

Against the backdrop of a slowing global economy and lower commodity prices, economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is stagnating. The World Bank 2015 MENA economic monitor report projects overall gross domestic product (GDP) growth to be less than 3 percent for the third...

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Globalization, Economic Shocks, and Internal Armed Conflict

Elbadawi, Ibrahim; Hegre, Havard - 2008

Critics of trade liberalization argue that globalization increases countries' vulnerability to economic shocks and hence may exacerbate domestic social conflict. Such social conflict may also be transformed into armed conflict. Others argue that globalization promotes economic growth and reduces...

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