Post-Conflict Recovery and Peacebuilding

Finds that civil wars, the most common type of large scale violent conflict, are long, brutal and continue to harm societies even after conclusion. Post-conflict countries face extraordinary development and security challenges as they move toward economic recovery. As most countries experience incre...

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Main Authors:	Hoeffler, Anke, Ijaz, Syeda Shahbano, von Billerbeck, Sarah
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:	World Development Report 2011
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9184

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spelling	okr-10986-91842021-04-23T14:02:44Z Post-Conflict Recovery and Peacebuilding Hoeffler, Anke Ijaz, Syeda Shahbano von Billerbeck, Sarah World Development Report 2011 Finds that civil wars, the most common type of large scale violent conflict, are long, brutal and continue to harm societies even after conclusion. Post-conflict countries face extraordinary development and security challenges as they move toward economic recovery. As most countries experience increased growth after the end of the war, external aid helps them to make the most of this peace dividend; however, aid is only growth enhancing when the violence has stopped, so in violent post-war societies aid fails to create a growth enhancing effect. Good governance is robustly correlated with growth; however, whether aid increases growth conditional on good policies is unclear. Likewise it is unclear which types of aid and policy should be prioritized. The effect of UN missions does not necessarily result in economic growth and case studies are needed for better insight into the relationship between security guarantees and economic stabilization. 2012-06-26T15:40:31Z 2012-06-26T15:40:31Z 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9184 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Africa Middle East and North Africa
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description	Finds that civil wars, the most common type of large scale violent conflict, are long, brutal and continue to harm societies even after conclusion. Post-conflict countries face extraordinary development and security challenges as they move toward economic recovery. As most countries experience increased growth after the end of the war, external aid helps them to make the most of this peace dividend; however, aid is only growth enhancing when the violence has stopped, so in violent post-war societies aid fails to create a growth enhancing effect. Good governance is robustly correlated with growth; however, whether aid increases growth conditional on good policies is unclear. Likewise it is unclear which types of aid and policy should be prioritized. The effect of UN missions does not necessarily result in economic growth and case studies are needed for better insight into the relationship between security guarantees and economic stabilization.
author	Hoeffler, Anke Ijaz, Syeda Shahbano von Billerbeck, Sarah
author_facet	Hoeffler, Anke Ijaz, Syeda Shahbano von Billerbeck, Sarah
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title	Post-Conflict Recovery and Peacebuilding
title_short	Post-Conflict Recovery and Peacebuilding
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publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
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Post-Conflict Recovery and Peacebuilding

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