Djankov, Simeon; Reynal-Querol, Marta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
A popular "stylized fact" is that poverty is a main determinant of civil war: several scholars have interpreted the … correlation between the two as evidence supporting this claim. In this paper, we find that the relationship between poverty and … particular, the statistical association between poverty, as proxied by income per capita, and civil wars disappears once we …