International Network for Economics and Conflict

This working paper looks at options of how the local financial sector may contribute to post-conflict peacebuilding, taking the specific example of Nepal. It differentiates between private commercial banks, governmental commercial banks and microfinance institutions and explores how these institutions were affected by the violent conflict in Nepal, how they responded to challenges, and discusses options as well as limitations for financial sector engagement in peacebuidling.

This paper offers a framework for replicating models of improving local business and investment climates.

This paper reviews the design of partial credit guarantee schemes in MENA, and assesses their preliminary outcomes.

This guide is designed to help project teams engaged in investment climate reform in conflict-affected countries more effectively design, plan, implement, and evaluate reform projects.

This paper discusses whether adopting the U.S. dollar as the sole legal tender could help Liberia, a post-conflict economy, to boost growth and strengthen fiscal discipline.

This report from Standard Bank maps out the state of elections in Africa in an outlook for 2011 and 2012.

Although both domestic and foreign private banks have gained ground in MENA in recent years, state banks continue to play an important role in many countries. Using a MENA bank-level panel dataset for the period 2001-08, the paper contributes to the empirical literature by documenting recent ownership trends and assessing the role of ownership and bank performance in MENA while accounting for key bank characteristics such as size and balance sheet composition.

Barbara Lewis-Mullin discusses operating in developing countries and transitioning economies in which there is little statistical information available prior to the start of work in the area.

This report is a comprehensive examination of possible future areas for export growth for El Salvador.