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Social and economic decline as factors in conflict in the Caucasus

Glinkina, Svetlana P.; Rosenberg, Dorothy J. - 2003

We argue that the conflicts in the Caucasus are the result of the abrogation by the elite of the earlier, Soviet era, social contract. This process was accompanied by the collapse of the formal economy; evidenced by huge national income compression, falling public goods provision, and growing...

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Nigeria: A Prime Example of the Resource Curse? Revisiting the Oil-Violence Link in the Niger Delta

Mähler, Annegret - 2010

Nigeria: ein 'Musterbeispiel' des Ressourcenfluchs? Eine kritische Evaluation des Zusammenhangs von Erdöl und Gewalt im … Nigerdelta. Dieser Beitrag analysiert den Zusammenhang von Erdöl und Gewalt im Niger Delta unter systematischer Berücksichtigung … - bereits vor Beginn der Erdölförderung in Nigeria virulent waren. Erdöl hat das Risiko gewaltsamer Konflikte zweitens durch …

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Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions: A Piece of The Natural Resource Curse Puzzle

Swart, Julia; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2009

We combine the resource curse literature with the literature on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) to investigate two hypotheses, namely (i) natural resources wealth: countries with a comparative advantage in natural resources attract more M&As in natural resource intensive sectors and...

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Income distribution policies for faster poverty reduction

Addison, Tony; Cornia, Giovanni Andrea - 2001

Inequality has risen in many countries over the last two decades, especially in the transition economies, but also in many developing and developed economies. This is disturbing since little progress can be made in poverty reduction when inequality is high and rising. Moreover, contrary to...

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Gewalttätige Konflikte erhöhen Einkommensungleichheit

Vothknecht, Marc - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 40, pp. 683-687

Politische Unruhen, Bürgerkriege und im Extrem Völkermord sind einige der Gründe für die enttäuschende Wirtschaftsentwicklung in vielen Entwicklungsländern in den letzten Jahrzehnten, vor allem in Afrika. Perioden andauernder Gewalt beeinflussen auch die Verteilung von Einkommen in den...

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Managing Ethnic Conflict: The Menu of Institutional Engineering

Basedau, Matthias - 2011

The debate on institutional engineering offers options to manage ethnic and other conflicts. This contribution systematically assesses the logic of these institutional designs and the empirical evidence on their functioning. Generally, institutions can work on ethnic conflict by either...

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Economic rents and the contours of conflict in the data-driven economy

Ciuriak, Dan - 2020

In the era of continuous and steadily accelerating technological change that started with the Industrial Revolution, economies and societies were repeatedly transformed in ways that can be traced to ownership of the essential and scarce factor of production of the day and command of the economic...

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Conflict in Africa: The cost of peaceful behaviour

Addison, Tony; LeBillon, Philippe; Murshed, S. Mansoob - 2001

War provides economic opportunities, such as the capture of valuable natural resources, that are unavailable in peacetime. However, belligerents may prefer low-intensity conflict to total war when the former has a greater pay-off. The paper therefore uses a two-actor model to capture the...

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Fuel for Conflict or Balm for Peace? Assessing the Effects of Hydrocarbons on Peace Efforts in Algeria

Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2010

This paper explores the use of hydrocarbon revenues in post-conflict Algeria. While the bloody years of the 1990s now seem to be over, recurring terror attacks and the ongoing state of emergency leave room for doubt that a situation of stable peace has been achieved yet. It is therefore...

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Inclusive Institutions and the Onset of Internal Conflict in Resource-rich Countries

Wegenast, Tim - 2010

The literature on institutional determinants of intra-state violence commonly asserts that the presence of multiple political parties reduces the conflict potential within countries; by co-opting oppositional groups into an institutionalized political arena, dissidents would prefer...

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