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    Employment Generation in Rural Africa : Mid-Term Results from an Experimental Evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda (2011)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Social Protection and Labor Discussion Papers
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Abstract: Can cash transfers promote employment and reduce poverty in rural Africa? Will lower youth unemployment and poverty reduce the risk of social instability? The authors experimentally evaluate one of Uganda's largest development programs, which provided thousands of young people nearly unconditional, unsupervised cash transfers to pay for vocational training, tools, and business start-up costs. Mid-term results after two years suggest four main findings. First, despite a lack of central monitoring and accountability, most youth invest the transfer in vocational skills and tools. Second, the economic impacts of the transfer are large: hours of non-household employment double and cash earnings increase by nearly 50 percent relative to the control group. The authors estimate the transfer yields a real annual return on capital of 35 percent on average. Third, the evidence suggests that poor access to credit is a major reason youth cannot start these vocations in the absence of aid. Much of the heterogeneity in impacts is unexplained, however, and is unrelated to conventional economic measures of ability, suggesting we have much to learn about the determinants of entrepreneurship. Finally, these economic gains result in modest improvements in social stability. Measures of social cohesion and community support improve mildly, by roughly 5 to 10 percent, especially among males, most likely because the youth becomes a net giver rather than a net taker in his kin and community network. Most strikingly, we see a 50 percent fall in interpersonal aggression and disputes among males, but a 50 percent increase among females. Neither change seems related to economic performance nor does social cohesion a puzzle to be explored in the next phase of the study. These results suggest that increasing access to credit and capital could stimulate employment growth in rural Africa. In particular, unconditional and unsupervised cash transfers may be a more effective and cost-efficient forming of large-scale aid than commonly believed. A second stage of data collection in 2012 will collect longitudinal economic impacts, additional data on political violence and behavior, and explore alternative theoretical mechanisms
    DOI: 10.1596/26827
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    Reducing Crime and Violence : Experimental Evidence on Adult Noncognitive Investments in Liberia (2016)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (108 p)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Blattman, Christopher Reducing Crime and Violence : Experimental Evidence on Adult Noncognitive Investments in Liberia
    Abstract: The paper shows that self-control, time preferences, and values are malleable in adults, and that investments in these skills and preferences reduce crime and violence. The authors recruited criminally-engaged Liberian men and randomized half to eight weeks of group cognitive behavioral therapy, fostering self-regulation, patience, and noncriminal values. They also randomized
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7648
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    Why we fight : the roots of war and the paths to peace (2023)
    London : Penguin Books Ltd
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    ISBN: 9780241989258
    Language: English
    Pages: 388 Seiten , Karten, Diagramme
    DDC: 303.66
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    Keywords: Krieg ; Kriegsursache ; Friedenskonsolidierung ; Verlauf ; Kriegsbeginn ; Konfliktregelung ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Abrüstung und Rüstungskontrolle ; Behavioural economics ; Diplomacy ; Diplomatie ; Friedenssicherung ; General & world history ; Geopolitics ; Geopolitik ; Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte ; HISTORY / Military / General ; HISTORY / World ; Internationale Institutionen ; Military history: post WW2 conflicts ; Militärgeschichte ; PHILOSOPHY / Political ; POL069000 ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Treaties ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace ; Krieg ; Kampf ; Gewalt ; Konfliktforschung ; Friedensforschung
    Abstract: Why do human beings fight one another? In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mobs, pilots, football hooligans, ancient peoples and fanatics. Distilling decades of economics, political science, psychology and real-world interventions, and through his time studying Columbia, Chicago, Liberia and Northern Ireland, Christopher Blattman lifts the lid on the underlying forces governing war and peace. Why did Russia attack Ukraine? Will China invade Taiwan and launch WWIII? And what can any of us do about it? 'Captivating and intelligent' Tim Harford 'Wise, intriguing, imaginative' Rory Stewart 'Nothing could be more relevant today than war and peace . . . an outstanding and original book on this topic' Martin Wolf, Financial Times 'Important, readable, radical' David Miliband 'A great storyteller with important insights for us all' Richard Thaler, co-author of Nudge 'Essential for understanding the world we live in today' James A. Robinson, co-author of Why Nations Fail
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    Why we fight : the roots of war and the paths to peace (2022)
    [New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books
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    ISBN: 9780241444511 , 9780241444504
    Language: English
    Pages: 388 Seiten , Diagramme, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.6/6
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    Keywords: Friedensforschung ; Gewalt ; Kampf ; Konfliktforschung ; Krieg ; War and society ; Social conflict ; Ethnic conflict ; Violence ; War ; Peace ; Krieg ; Kampf ; Gewalt ; Konfliktforschung ; Friedensforschung
    Abstract: An acclaimed expert on violence and seasoned peacebuilder explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war, and how to interrupt that deadly process. It's easy to overlook the underlying strategic forces of war, to see it solely as a series of errors, accidents, and emotions gone awry. It's also easy to forget that war shouldn't happen-and most of the time it doesn't. Around the world there are millions of hostile rivalries, yet only a tiny fraction erupt into violence. Too many accounts of conflict forget this. With a counterintuitive approach, Blattman reminds us that most rivals loathe one another in peace. That's because war is too costly to fight. Enemies almost always find it better to split the pie than spoil it or struggle over thin slices. So, in those rare instances when fighting ensues, we should ask: what kept rivals from compromise? Why We Fight draws on decades of economics, political science, psychology, and real-world interventions to lay out the root causes and remedies for war, showing that violence is not the norm; that there are only five reasons why conflict wins over compromise; and how peacemakers turn the tides through tinkering, not transformation. From warring states to street gangs, ethnic groups and religious sects to political factions, there are common dynamics to heed and lessons to learn. Along the way, we meet vainglorious European monarchs, African dictators, Indian mobs, Nazi pilots, British football hooligans, ancient Greeks, and fanatical Americans. What of remedies that shift incentives away from violence and get parties back to deal-making? Societies are surprisingly good at interrupting and ending violence when they want to-even the gangs of Medellin do it. Realistic and optimistic, this is book that lends new meaning to the old adage, "Give peace a chance."
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 345-370, Register
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    Why we fight : the roots of war and the paths to peace (2022)
    New York : Viking
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    ISBN: 9781984881571
    Language: English
    Pages: [ix], 388 Seiten , Karten, Diagramme
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Sinai, Joshua [Rezension von: Blattman, Christopher, Why we fight] 2022
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Blattman, Christopher Why we fight
    DDC: 303.6/6
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    Keywords: War and society ; Social conflict ; Ethnic conflict ; Violence ; War ; Peace ; Krieg ; Kriegsursache ; Friedenskonsolidierung ; Verlauf ; Kriegsbeginn ; Konfliktregelung ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Krieg ; Kampf ; Gewalt ; Konfliktforschung ; Friedensforschung
    Abstract: "An acclaimed expert on violence and seasoned peacebuilder explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war, and how to interrupt that deadly process. It's easy to overlook the underlying strategic forces of war, to see it solely as a series of errors, accidents, and emotions gone awry. It's also easy to forget that war shouldn't happen-and most of the time it doesn't. Around the world there are millions of hostile rivalries, yet only a tiny fraction erupt into violence. Too many accounts of conflict forget this. With a counterintuitive approach, Blattman reminds us that most rivals loathe one another in peace. That's because war is too costly to fight. Enemies almost always find it better to split the pie than spoil it or struggle over thin slices. So, in those rare instances when fighting ensues, we should ask: what kept rivals from compromise? Why We Fight draws on decades of economics, political science, psychology, and real-world interventions to lay out the root causes and remedies for war, showing that violence is not the norm; that there are only five reasons why conflict wins over compromise; and how peacemakers turn the tides through tinkering, not transformation. From warring states to street gangs, ethnic groups and religious sects to political factions, there are common dynamics to heed and lessons to learn. Along the way, we meet vainglorious European monarchs, African dictators, Indian mobs, Nazi pilots, British football hooligans, ancient Greeks, and fanatical Americans. What of remedies that shift incentives away from violence and get parties back to deal-making? Societies are surprisingly good at interrupting and ending violence when they want to-even the gangs of Medellin do it. Realistic and optimistic, this is book that lends new meaning to the old adage, "Give peace a chance.""--
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 345-370, Register
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