HiCN Working Papers Series
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Neil Ferguson, Tatiana Orozco García
An increasing proportion of the world’s poor live in fragile states, and efforts to build economic and social stability increasingly focus on those settings. Fragility […]
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Can Jobs Programs Build Peace?
Tilman Brück, Neil Ferguson, Wolfgang Stojetz, Valeria Izzi
In the last decade, well over $10bn has been spent on interventions that aim to build peace and social stability through employment. Despite this degree […]
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Tilman Brück, Neil Ferguson, Eleonora Nillesen, Kai M. Dunker Aline Meysonnat
Abstract: Violent conflict is a well-recogniseddriver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull factors that might also cause irregular movements. In […]
275
Assets for Alimentation? The Nutritional Impact of Assets-Based Programming in Niger
Tilman Brück, Neil Ferguson, Oscar Mauricio Díaz Botía J. Ouédraogoc Z. Ziegelhöfer
A recent strand of aid programming aims to develop household assets by removing the stresses associated with meeting basic nutritional needs. In this paper, we […]
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Micro-Foundations of Fragility: Concepts, Measurement and Application
Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück, Neil Ferguson, Sindu W. Kebede
We explore the micro-foundations of fragility by discussing how to measure the exposure to fragility at the individual level. We focus on two notions that […]
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In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict remained prevalent in the political […]
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The Legacy of Conflict: Regional Deprivation and School Performance in Northern Ireland
Neil Ferguson, Maren Michaelsen
The relationship between deprivation and educational outcomes has been the subject of a long-running and deep debate in the economic literature. Recent discussions have focused […]