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Borderline Disorder: (De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304156
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Borderline Disorder: (De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322535
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Land access, tenure and investment in post-war Northern Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2003
The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438824
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Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2003
The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260692
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Borderline disorder : (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306383
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Borderline disorder: (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294782
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Borderline disorder: (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012489414
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(De facto) historical ethnic borders and land tenure in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014313661
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Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963705
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Secure land rental contracts and agricultural investment in two communal areas of KwaZulu-Natal
Dengu, T.; Lyne, Michael C. - In: Agrekon 46 (2007) 3
This study tests the hypothesis that an efficient rental market for cropland is a significant determinant of agricultural investment in the communal areas of KwaZulu-Natal. An efficient rental market creates an opportunity cost for under-utilisation, which tends to transfer resources to more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005493786