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When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …
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open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive … group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, hereas conflict looms under poor executive constraints. Analyzing annual data … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …
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open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive … group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, whereas conflict looms under poor executive constraints. Analyzing annual … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …
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This paper examines the effect of foreign aid in the terrorism-FDI nexus while considering the extent of domestic corruption-control (CC). The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 78 developing countries. The following findings are established: the negative effect of terrorism on FDI is...
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We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect … conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the … empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict shows that none of the previous studies proposes a compelling …
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its sectoral composition. The allocation of post-conflict aid tends to be needs-based by favoring particularly poor … to settlement. Furthermore, the sustainability of conflict resolution appears to be unrelated to the amount and … composition of post-conflict aid. These findings, though based on a limited number of post-conflict episodes, underscore concerns …
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This study analyzes the dynamic impact of democratization on receipt of foreign aid. Since the 1990s, this relationship has been increasingly important, given the end of the Cold War and the related turn to good governance, increased pressure from donor publics for political conditionality, and...
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This paper examines the effect of foreign aid in the terrorism-FDI nexus while considering the extent of domestic corruption-control (CC). The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 78 developing countries. The following findings are established: the negative effect of terrorism on FDI is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908025
from 2006-2009. Our study leverages granular military data on aid and conflict, and household survey data on corruption and … to curtail corruption, boost public opinion, and reduce conflict. But under donor fragmentation, the benefits of aid are …
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In this study, we investigate the role of development assistance in reducing a hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on economic growth, using a panel of 78 developing nations with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence is based on interactive Quantile regressions. Domestic,...
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