This paper provides a theoretical analysis in a dynamic setting of the merits of redistributive transfers in preventing the onset of (and reducing) civil unrest and compare it with policies of more direct intervention such as the use of police.
Annex to Comprehensive Development Framework and Conflict-affected Countries: Issues Paper presented at PRSP Review Seminar Series, Washington DC, World Bank, November 8, 2001
Presented at the PRSP Review Seminar Series at the World Bank, this paper seeks to identify the major challenges or issues in applying CDF principles in conflict-affected countries. This paper is an initial contextual desk study based on World Bank in-house interviews. The paper asserts that the four CDF principles (ownership, comprehensive analysis, accountability for development results and partnership) are indeed applicable for assistance to countries in or at risk of violent conflict.
Social and political conflicts are not only normal but also could serve as constructive catalyst for effecting desirable change in the society. However the key barometer for measuring social and political maturity is not in the ability to avoid conflict but in the capacity to conflict and resolve it without major violent social breakdown. This latter dimension is evidently lacking in many African states.
Conflict and Poverty (abstract only) September 30, 1999
Deepa Narayan, Paul Collier, and Vijayendra Rao
This seminar looked at new evidence which links conflict and poverty.
This paper is an attempt to shed some light on issues relating to social protection in transition countries emerging from ethnic conflict. It analyzes how constraints posed both by conflict itself and its ethnic nature affect social protection policies and suggests ways out.
This paper addresses issues of conflict and the creation of fiscal institutions, raises questions of who gets what—public employment and public spending—and who has to pay for it, and contrasts the evolution of stable and unstable societies.
