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Income and Democracy; Lipset's Law Revisited

Hoeffler, Anke; Bates, Robert H.; Fayad, Ghada - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

We revisit Lipsetâ€˜s law, which posits a positive and significant relationship between income and democracy. Using dynamic and heterogeneous panel data estimation techniques, we find a significant and negative relationship between income and democracy: higher/lower incomes per capita...

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Migration, Diasporas and Culture: an Empirical Investigation

Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

Using global data we examine the dynamics of migration from developing to developed countries. Origin and destination countries are characterized by substantial diffrences in incomes, political rights and cultures. Incentives as well as costs shape the decision to migrate. One powerful...

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Resource Rents, Governance, and Conflict

Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 49 (2005) 4, pp. 625-633

Case studies as well as cross-country studies suggest that countries with an abundance of natural resources are more prone to violent conflict. This collection of articles analyzes the link between natural resources and civil war in a number of different ways. So far the literature falls broadly...

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Greed and grievance in civil wars

Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2002

We investigate the causes of civil war, using a new data set of wars during 1960-99. We test a `greed’ theory focusing on the ability to finance rebellion, against a `grievance’ theory focusing on ethnic and religious divisions, political repression and inequality. We find that greed...

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Greed and Grievance in Civil War

Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002

We investigate the causes of civil war, using a new data set of wars during 1960-99. We test a greed theory focusing on the ability to finance rebellion, against a grievance theory focusing on ethnic and religious divisions, political repression and inequality. We find that greed considerably...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605126

Migration, Diasporas and Culture: an Empirical Investigation

Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2014

Using global data we examine the dynamics of migration from developing to developed countries. Origin and destination countries are characterized by substantial differences in incomes, political rights and cultures. Incentives as well as costs shape the decision to migrate. One powerful dynamic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887046

Aid and fragile states

Hoeffler, Anke; Justino, Patricia - 2023

Aid is still an important feature of the development landscape. Fragile states, in particular, have the greatest … development needs but due to their poor governance they are the least likely countries to use aid effectively to meet their … development challenges. In this paper, we explore which fragile states receive most aid flows, which donors are particularly …

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Greed and Grievance in Civil War

Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - EconWPA - 2004

We investigate the causes of civil war, using a new data set of wars during 1960-99. We test a `greed’ theory focusing on the ability to finance rebellion, against a`grievance’ theory focusing on ethnic and religious divisions, political repression and inequality. We find that greed...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407738

What are the costs of violence?

Hoeffler, Anke - In: Politics, philosophy & economics : ppe 16 (2017) 4, pp. 422-445

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Security and development : shifting the focus to interpersonal violence

Hoeffler, Anke - In: The Economics of peace and security journal : Eps journal 13 (2018) 1, pp. 12-23

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