All around the world, inequalities persist in the complex web of social, economic, and
ecological factors that mediate food security outcomes at different human and institutional …

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic
inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global …

In our brief review, we take stock of the emergence, in the last decade, of the
“microeconomics of violent conflict” as a new subfield of empirical development economics …

Armed conflicts are widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and considered to be an important
factor in slowing down national progress in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child …

Calculating the consequences of global public bads such as climate change or pandemics
helps uncover the scale, distribution and structure of their economic burdens. As violent …

Several variables influence income distributions both for developed and develo**
countries. Based on the submissions of extant evaluations, policymakers have implemented …

This paper examines the effect of conflict on agricultural production of small farmers. First, an
inter-temporal model of agricultural production is developed in which the impact of conflict is …

How can power over others be transformed to'power with'? It is possible to transform many
institutions to build societies with less predation and more freedom. These stretch from …

Intrastate conflict generally undermines human development but its effect on global poverty
across different income thresholds remains poorly understood. This paper analyzes how …

Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa has been marred by conflicts during the past several decades.
While the intensity of conflicts in recent years is lower than that observed in the 1990s, the …