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Drought and civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa
Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphael - 2010
In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures used in the literature (rainfall and temperature) as it...
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Trade liberalization, democratization and technology adoption
Cervellati, Matteo; Naghavi, Alireza; Toubal, Farid - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383316
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Democracy does not cause growth : the importance of endogeneity arguments
Ruiz Pozuelo, Julia; Slipowitz, Amy; Vuletin, Guillermo - 2016
positive association between democracy and economic growth is driven by endogenous democratization episodes (i.e., due to …This article challenges recent findings that democracy has sizable effects on economic growth. As extensive political … paper focuses on this endogeneity concern. Using a worldwide survey of 165 country-specific democracy experts conducted for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521223
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Defender, not promoter : the limits to the African Union's pursuit of democratic consolidation
Friel, Eleanor - 2014
Independently of the fact that the replacement of overtly authoritarian regimes in many African countries appeared to presage fundamental political change, a closer examination of democratic trends since the establishment of the African Union (AU) paints a less promising picture. In this paper,...
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Remarks on CCS's special conference : Peace Through Reconstruction
Castillo, Graciana del - 2009
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Three forewords
Phelps, Edmund S. - 2008
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The diabolical spiral : food prices and civil conflicts
Cadoret, Isabelle; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Thelen, … - 2017
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Mothers at peace : international peacebuilding and post-conflict fertility
Bove, Vincenzo; Di Salvatore, Jessica; Elia, Leandro; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014227822
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Oil revenues, ethnic fragmentation and political transition of authoritarian regimes
Cologni, Alessandro; Manera, Matteo - 2012
considered. Under certain circumstances, a process of full democratization is argued not to represent an optimal choice for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535530
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Party age and party color : new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality
Keefer, Philip; Milanović, Branko - 2014
This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central, but still contested, assumption of the...
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