Documents et rapports
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Aid with multiple personalities (anglais)
The existing research on foreign aid offers inconclusive evidence on the factors that make aid effective. In this paper, the authors test the hypothesis that the success of foreign aid depends on the fragmentation...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 45249 Date du document: 1 août 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Djankov,Simeon, Montalvo, Jose G.,Reynal-Querol,Marta
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The curse of aid (anglais)
Foreign aid provides a windfall of resources to recipient countries and may result in the same rent seeking behavior as documented in the 'curse of natural resources' literature. In this paper the author...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 45254 Date du document: 1 décembre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Djankov,Simeon,Montalvo, Jose G,Reynal-Querol,Marta
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The causes of civil war (anglais)
The dominant hypothesis in the literature that studies conflict is that poverty is the main cause of civil wars. The authors instead analyze the effect of institutions on civil war, controlling for income...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4254 Date du document: 1 juin 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Djankov,Simeon,Reynal-Querol,Marta
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The aftermath of civil war (anglais)
Using an "event-study" methodology, this paper analyzes the aftermath of civil war in a cross-section of countries. It focuses on those experiences where the end of conflict marks the beginning of a relatively...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4190 Date du document: 1 avril 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chen,Siyan,Loayza,Norman V.,Reynal-Querol,Marta
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Ethnic polarization and the duration of civil wars (anglais)
The authors analyze the relationship between ethnic polarization and the duration of civil wars. Several recent papers have argued that the uncertainty about the relative power of the contenders in a war...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4192 Date du document: 1 avril 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Montalvo, Jose G.,Reynal-Querol,Marta
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Breaking the conflict trap : civil war and development policy (anglais)
Most wars are now civil wars. Even though international wars attract enormous global attention, they have become infrequent and brief. Civil wars usually attract less attention, but they have become increasingly...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 56793 Date du document: 1 janvier 2003 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Collier,Paul,Elliott,Lydia Victorine,Hegre,Havard,Hoeffler,Anke Elisabeth,Reynal-Querol,Marta,Sambanis,Nicholas