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  Economic imperative for peace in Sri Lanka

  International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2003

  What is the relationship between economic growth and ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka?
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  Land rights in crisis: restoring tenure security in Afghanistan

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2003

  This paper summarises the findings of a short exercise to identify land issues in present-day Afghanistan.
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  Public health and humanitarian interventions: developing the evidence base

  British Medical Journal, 2000

  During an emergency response, there is a tension between saving lives in the short term and promoting longer-lasting health systems development. An article in the British Medical Journal makes the case for expanding the evidence base underlying humanitarian aid.
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  Is aid in crisis?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Are aid agencies addressing the causes of conflict in dysfunctional states? Can humanitarian assistance be neutral when aid is an instrument of foreign policy wielded by powerful donor states? In an era of disintegrating state authority are aid providers succeeding in attempts to make relief more development-oriented?
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  The rise of the environmental refugee: nightmare in the making?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is environmental degradation set to create new waves of displaced people seeking asylum in the north? Will refugee camps and shantytowns foster civil disorder, pandemics and political extremism to threaten the interests of the developed world? Or is the concept of ‘environmental refugee’ a dangerous distraction from central issues of development and conflict resolution?
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  Terrorism and tourism: is the impact permanent or transitory?: time series evidence from some MENA countries

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2000

  This paper uses economic analysis to explore the duration of the impact of events such as terrorist attacks on the tourist economy. The authors state that no research has directly examined the time path of tourist visits to test if “shocks” have permanent or transitory effects.
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  Political Dimensions of Globalization and Equity in East Asia

  Global Development Network, 2003

  The paper examines the relationship between globalisation and equity in East Asia from a political perspective. Economic relations have replaced Cold War politics as the main determinant of state interaction in the region. Throughout Northeast and Southeast Asia, trade and investment liberalisation has been accepted as the key to accelerated integration into the regional economy.
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  Ethnic conflict, institutions and the tragedy of the commons: when human diversity hinders economic growth: empirical evidence from a sample of African countries

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper analyses the effect of ethnic conflict on economic growth.
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  Inequality of child mortality among ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2000

  Accounts by journalists of wars in several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s have raised concern that ethnic cleavages and overlapping religious and racial affiliations may widen the inequalities in health and survival among ethnic groups throughout the region, particularly among children.
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  The rise of ethnic militias, de-legitimisation of the state, and the threat to Nigerian federalism

  West African Review, 2001

  The idea of federalism is still an evolving one, but how is it evolving in Nigeria? Nigeria is an archetypal plural society characterised by divergent languages, cultures, ethnic groups and geographic regions. The author argues that federalism represents a compromise solution for multi-national states like Nigeria.

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