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Opium for the masses?: conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan

Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove; Willumsen, Fredrik - 2009

We show that the recent rise in Afghan opium production is caused by violent conflicts. Violence destroys roads and irrigation, crucial to alternative crops, and weakens local incentives to rebuild infrastructure and enforce law and order. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western...

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Conflict and entrepreneurial activity in Afghanistan: Findings from the national risk vulnerability assessment data

Ciarli, Tommaso; Parto, Saeed; Savona, Maria - 2010

The paper examines the relationship between conflict and entrepreneurial activity in Afghanistan, drawing upon a unique … data set, the National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment household survey 2005. Afghanistan is severely underdeveloped and … poor. Conflict has persisted in vast swathes of the country for decades, so that Afghanistan may be more appropriately …

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Opium for the masses? Conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan

Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove - 2009

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Conflict, food price shocks, and food insecurity: The experience of Afghan households

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - 2012

linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large …. Therefore while conflict may not be the driving factor in overall levels of food insecurity in Afghanistan, it may limit the …

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Are drone strikes effective in Afghanistan and Pakistan? On the dynamics of violence between the United States and the Taliban

Jaeger, David A.; Siddique, Zahra - 2011

Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the … Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from January 2007 to December 2010. We find that drone strikes do not have any … significant impact on terrorist violence in Afghanistan but that drone strikes do have a significant impact on Taliban …

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