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conflict and changes from its author's scientific output. A context of conflicts that includes new expressions of violence and …
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stronger than the other – exhibit different patterns of violence. We hypothesize that, while the mode of violence differs, the … (1936-1939), and an irregular civil war, in Colombia (1964-). In both cases, the war cleavage was reflected in national …
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274,428 municipality-month observations in Colombia to determine the conditions favoring organized violence at the … subnational level. The data cast doubt on the conventional correlates of war: poverty, rough terrain, lootable natural resources …
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Colombia, and tests competing theoretical mechanisms that may shape such effect. Our identification strategy is based on the …
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with the likelihood of being middle class. The example of Colombia illustrates that, while growing in size, this income …
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A review of several decades of scholarship on civil war, focusing on the answers to key questions: Why do wars begin? Who fights? How are armed groups organized? How can we end and prevent internal war? A survey of the growing body of macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence to assess the...
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This work analyses the influence of economic variables, poverty and armed conflict on violence in Colombia. For this … estimated in order to determine the effects of these variables on violence in Colombia from 1950 to 2006. Socioeconomic … characteristics, poverty and variables associated with armed conflict affect the dynamics of violence, and moreover, there are various …
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This paper studies the socio-economic determinants of violence in the seven most important cities in Colombia. Derived …, poverty and human capital influence violence in the cities studied, which could generate negative effects on the economic and … strain, we formulate several hypotheses on the socio-economic determinants of violence. To test these hypotheses, a dynamic …
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, the paper also illustrates how violence, security and poverty interrelate in the eyes of the poor, often in causal ways …Set within the context of re-conceptualizing poverty to emphasize its multidimensionality, this paper argues for the … in the form of violence and conflict. In turn, it suggests that research on security should continue its shift in focus …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between poverty and armed conflict in Antioquia, Colombia. The poverty analysis is … framed within Sen’s capability approach, which forms the conceptual basis of the multidimensional poverty index (Alkire and … municipality. The possible existence of a relationship between poverty and armed conflict is analyzed through exploratory and non …
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