Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

1  

Introduction and Overview (84 kb pdf file)
Jean A.P. Clément

2  

The Democratic Republic of the Congo:
Lessons and Challenges for a Country Emerging From War
Jean A.P. Clément

3  

The Economics of Postconflict Countries:
A Survey of the Literature
Ragnar Gudmundsson

4  

The Economics of Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa
Charles Amo Yartey

5  

Economic Performance over the Conflict Cycle
Nicholas Staines

6  

Sources of Growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: An Econometric Approach
Bernardin Akitoby and Matthias Cinyabuguma

7  

Political Instability and Growth in the Central African Republic, a Neighbor of the Democratic Republic
of the Congo
Dhaneshwar Ghura and Benoît Mercereau

8  

Empirical Evidence of the Sources of Hyperinflation
and Falling Currency
Bernardin Akitoby

9  

Challenges to Financial Intermediation in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo
Bernard Laurens and Wim Fonteyne

10  

Rebuilding Fiscal Institutions
Nicolas Calcoen

11  

Structural and Sectoral Policies and Their Sequencing
Jacob Gons

12  

The Long Road to Demilitarization: 1997–2003
Markus Kostner, Ely Dieng, and Adriaan Verheul