Who Benefited from Burundi’s Demobilization Program?

This paper assesses the impact of the demobilization, reinsertion and reintegration program in post-war Burundi. Two major rebel groups benefited from cash and in-kind transfers, the CNDD-FDD from 2004, and the FNL from 2010. We combine panel data of households collected in 2006 and 2010 with offici...

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Main Authors:	D’Aoust, Olivia, Sterck, Olivier, Verwimp, Philip
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2019
Subjects:	CONFLICT WAR VIOLENCE DEMOBILIZATION REINTEGRATION SPILLOVER EX-COMBATANTS
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32781

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spelling	okr-10986-327812021-05-25T10:54:37Z Who Benefited from Burundi’s Demobilization Program? D’Aoust, Olivia Sterck, Olivier Verwimp, Philip CONFLICT WAR VIOLENCE DEMOBILIZATION REINTEGRATION SPILLOVER EX-COMBATANTS This paper assesses the impact of the demobilization, reinsertion and reintegration program in post-war Burundi. Two major rebel groups benefited from cash and in-kind transfers, the CNDD-FDD from 2004, and the FNL from 2010. We combine panel data of households collected in 2006 and 2010 with official records from the National Commission for Demobilization, Reinsertion and Reintegration. We find that the cash payments received by FNL demobilized households had a positive impact on consumption, nonfood spending and investments. The program also generated positive spillovers in the villages where FNL combatants returned. Ex-combatants indeed spent a large part of their allowance on consumption goods and clothing, thereby generating a short-run economic boom in villages. However, the long-run evolution of consumption indicators is negative for CNDD-FDD households, as well as for villages where CNDD-FDD combatants returned, suggesting that the direct impact and the spillovers of the program vanished in the long run. 2019-12-04T22:23:13Z 2019-12-04T22:23:13Z 2018-06 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32781 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Burundi
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description	This paper assesses the impact of the demobilization, reinsertion and reintegration program in post-war Burundi. Two major rebel groups benefited from cash and in-kind transfers, the CNDD-FDD from 2004, and the FNL from 2010. We combine panel data of households collected in 2006 and 2010 with official records from the National Commission for Demobilization, Reinsertion and Reintegration. We find that the cash payments received by FNL demobilized households had a positive impact on consumption, nonfood spending and investments. The program also generated positive spillovers in the villages where FNL combatants returned. Ex-combatants indeed spent a large part of their allowance on consumption goods and clothing, thereby generating a short-run economic boom in villages. However, the long-run evolution of consumption indicators is negative for CNDD-FDD households, as well as for villages where CNDD-FDD combatants returned, suggesting that the direct impact and the spillovers of the program vanished in the long run.
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author	D’Aoust, Olivia Sterck, Olivier Verwimp, Philip
author_facet	D’Aoust, Olivia Sterck, Olivier Verwimp, Philip
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title	Who Benefited from Burundi’s Demobilization Program?
title_short	Who Benefited from Burundi’s Demobilization Program?
title_full	Who Benefited from Burundi’s Demobilization Program?
title_fullStr	Who Benefited from Burundi’s Demobilization Program?
title_full_unstemmed	Who Benefited from Burundi’s Demobilization Program?
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publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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Who Benefited from Burundi’s Demobilization Program?

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