Who Benefited from Burundi's Demobilization Program?
This paper assesses the impact of the demobilization, reinsertion and reintegration program in post-war Burundi. Two major rebel groups benefited from cash and in-kind transfers, the CNDD-FDD from 2004, and the FNL from 2010. A panel data of househ...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/06/26532997/benefited-burundis-demobilization-program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24649 |
| Summary: | This paper assesses the impact of the
demobilization, reinsertion and reintegration program in
post-war Burundi. Two major rebel groups benefited from cash
and in-kind transfers, the CNDD-FDD from 2004, and the FNL
from 2010. A panel data of households collected in 2006 and
2010 is combined with official records from the National
Commission for Demobilization, Reinsertion and
Reintegration. Regression analysis shows that the cash
payments received by FNL demobilized households had a
positive impact on consumption, nonfood spending and
investments. The program also generated positive spillovers
in the villages where FNL combatants returned. Ex-combatants
indeed spent a large part of their allowance on consumption
goods and clothing, thereby generating a short-run economic
boom in villages. However, the long-run evolution of
consumption indicators is negative for CNDD-FDD households,
as well as for villages where CNDD-FDD combatants returned,
suggesting that the direct impact and the spillovers of the
program vanished in the long run. |
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