This paper revisits the issue of environment and development raised in the 1992 World Development Report, with new …

This paper investigates whether poor employment prospects of potential insurgents help to fuel conflict. The paper … benefits are unobserved. In contrast, many other shocks in the conflict literature are persistent and unanticipated, thus also … estimates of the effect of harvest shocks on conflict intensity in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan using subnational variation …

cover episodes of conflict from around the world and study the evolution of these variables during the five years prior to … of these variables in conflict-afflicted economies with economies that did not experience social conflict. The analyses … and five years after the onset of conflicts. Further, four alternative definitions of social conflict are used to …

-being for 118 countries from 2007 to 2014-a period during which nonviolent conflict became increasingly prevalent-the study …