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The Environmental Impact of Civil Conflict: The Deforestation Effect of Paramilitary Expansion In Colombia
Vargas, Juan Fernando; Fergusson, Leopoldo; Romero, Dario - UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO - 2014
Colombia. We combine a detailed satellite-based longitudinal dataset on forest cover across municipalities over the period 1990 … peace negotiations with the government. Further, after the demobilization the deforestation effect of the paramilitaries … disappears. We explore a number of potential mechanisms that may explain the conflict-driven deforestation, and show evidence …
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The environmental impact of civil conflict: The deforestation effect of paramilitary expansion in Colombia
Fergusson, Leopoldo; Romero, Dario; Vargas, Juan F. - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2014
Colombia. We combine a detailed satellite-based longitudinal dataset on forest cover across municipalities over the period 1990 … peace negotiations with the government. Further, after the demobilization the deforestation effect of the paramilitaries … disappears. We explore a number of potential mechanisms that may explain the conflict-driven deforestation, and show evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010946051
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The Tragedy of the Commons in a Violent World
Sekeris, Petros G. - Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et de … - 2012
Earlier research has shown that the tragedy of the commons may be resolved by Folk theorems for dynamic games. In this article we graft on a standard natural-resource exploitation game the possibility to appropriate the resource through violent means. Because conflict emerges endogenously as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010903727
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Wealth Inequality, Wealth Constraints and Economic Performance
Bardhan, Pranab; Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert - EconWPA - 1998
When asymmetry or non-verifiability of information, or non- excludability of users, makes contracts incomplete or unenforceable, and where for these and other reasons there are impediments to efficient bargaining, we show that private contracting will not generally assign the control of assets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134997
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Are All Resources Cursed? Coffee, Oil and Armed Confict in Colombia
Dube, Oeindrila; Vargas, Juan F. - CERAC -CENTRO DE RECURSOS PARA EL ANÁLISIS DE CONFLICTOS- - 2006
shocks for coffee and oil to test this hypothesis, using data on politically-motivated violence in Colombia over 1988 to 2004 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005597165
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Resource Curse in Reverse: The Coffee Crisis and Armed Conflict in Colombia.
Dube, Oeindrila; Vargas, Juan F. - Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London - 2006
markets, triggering the "international coffee crisis". We examine the effect of this exogenous price fall on Colombia's civil … causal evidnece that the steep decline in coffee prices substantially increased both the incidence and intensity of Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652690
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Heuristic Schelling: economy of organized crime
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept of private protection agencies in the works of Schelling. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict and changes from its author's scientific output. A context of conflicts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132735
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Firewood collections and economic growth in rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a household panel
Baland, Jean-Marie; Libois, François; Mookherjee, Dilip - Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et de … - 2012
A household panel data set is used to investigate the effects of economic growth on firewood collection in Nepal between 1995 and 2010. Results from preceding crosssectional analyses are found to be robust: (a) rising consumptions for all but the top decile were associated with increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010903726
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Protecting Brazil's tropical forest: a CGE analysis of macroeconomic, sectoral, and regional policies
Wiebelt, Manfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1994
The 'deforestation problem' in Brazil consists of a variety of interrelated issues, of which this paper identifies a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276332
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Design and Interpretation of Intensity Analysis Illustrated by Land Change in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Pontius, Robert Gilmore; Gao, Yan; Giner, Nicholas M.; … - In: Land 2 (2013) 3, pp. 351-369
Intensity Analysis has become popular as a top-down hierarchical accounting framework to analyze differences among categories, such as changes in land categories over time. Some aspects of interpretation are straightforward, while other aspects require deeper thought. This article explains how...
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