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Oil and civil conflict : Can public spending have a mitigation effect?
Bodea, Cristina; Higashijima, Masaaki; Singh, Raju Jan - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 78 (2016), pp. 1-12
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Deadly Combat over Natural Resources
Lujala, Paivi - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 53 (2009) 1, pp. 50-71
cultivation in the conflict area is associated with less severe conflicts but that gemstone mining and oil and gas in the conflict … production. Interestingly, oil and gas production outside the conflict zones is related to less severe conflicts. Measured at the …
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Chapter 23 Civil War
Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 711-739). 2007
Civil wars are intricate social, political and psychological phenomena. However, economics can offer analytical insights which are useful alongside the more conventional approach of case-studies. Indeed, the policy conclusions drawn from economic analysis sometimes cast doubt on conventional...
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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PETROLEUM WEALTH: SOME POLICY ALTERNATIVES
ROSS, MICHAEL L. - In: Middle East Development Journal (MEDJ) 05 (2013) 02, pp. 1350009-1
Mineral wealth tends to make countries less democratic and more likely to experience a civil war. Many countries also find it hard to use their natural resource revenues to make high-quality, growth-enhancing investments. I argue that these problems are caused, in part, by the unusual qualities...
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Oil, domestic conflict, and opportunities for democratization
Colgan, Jeff D - In: Journal of Peace Research 52 (2015) 1, pp. 3-16
The resource curse literature suggests two stylized facts about oil-producing states (‘petrostates’) that are not … succeed in violently overthrowing a petrostate regime or otherwise forcing regime transition. This is because oil generates … oil inhibits democratization in petrostates, but only in the context of violent domestic conflicts. Peaceful pathways to …
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Coal mining, economic development, and the natural resources curse
Betz, Michael R.; Partridge, Mark D.; Farren, Michael; … - In: Energy economics 50 (2015), pp. 105-116
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Leave the volatility fund alone : principles for managing oil wealth
Wills, Samuel - In: Journal of macroeconomics 55 (2018), pp. 332-352
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The resource curse revisited : a Bayesian model averaging approach
Arin, Kerim Peren; Braunfels, Elias - In: Energy economics 70 (2018), pp. 170-178
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The cost of endangered species protection : evidence from auctions for natural resources
Bošković, Branko; Nøstbakken, Linda - In: Journal of environmental economics and management : … 81 (2017), pp. 174-192
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Privatization and nationalization cycles
Chang, Roberto; Hevia, Constantino; Loayza, Norman - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 22 (2018) 2, pp. 331-361
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