This paper reviews the Bank's experience in conflict and development. It traces the evolution of thinking inside the Bank, how it has sought to adapt to more complex international challenges and how it...
This paper provides a number of key messages. First, children, particularly under five years, experience the highest mortality, morbidity and mental health impairment in conflict-affected settings. Second...
The paper provides an overview of the Bank's role in conflict and development, and explores the links between poverty, social capital and mental and psychosocial disorders in conflict settings. The premise...
This Toolkit is based on the premise that failure to address mental health and psychosocial disorders in populations that have experienced mass violence and trauma caused by conflict will impede efforts...
Countries emerging from war or prolonged periods of civil conflict face a bitter paradox: They urgently need basic infrastructure services, but they lack the adequate public revenues, government capacity...
This paper examines private investment patterns in post-conflict countries based on the Bank's Private Participation in Infrastructure database, and looks at some success stories that may offer useful...
This book highlights the gender dimensions of conflict, organized around major relevant themes such as female combatants, sexual violence, formal and informal peace processes, the legal framework, work...
The three Central American countries examined in this study suffered violent internal conflicts during the 1980s but faced the 1990s largely at peace and with a renewed sense of hope. As in most post-conflict...
At the time of the creation of the UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs (UNDHA), now the Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), no-one working in the relief and rehabilitation programs...
This note, summarizing recent research by Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler, presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of economic policy and aid on the risks of conflict. It finds that...
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the Bank's involvement in assisting member countries to attract and benefit from direct private foreign investment, and to suggest a set of general principles within...