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Mining for change : natural resources and industry in Africa
Page, John M. (ed.); Tarp, Finn (ed.) - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2020 - First edition
For a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery and exploitation of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one accompanied by considerable risks. This book presents research on how to better manage the revenues and opportunities associated with natural resources.
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Commodity shocks, factor intensity and conflicts in Africa
Gantier Mita, Marcelo - 2020
Natural resources are often related to conflicts. The Dal B'o & Dal B'o (2011) theory states that income shocks affect capital- and labor-intensive sectors differently. Using sub-national cells covering the African continent for 1997-2010, I find that conflicts react differently to positive...
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The Rule of Oil: Petro-Politics and the Anatomy of an Insurgency
Watts, Michael - In: Journal of African Development 11 (2009) 2
Thomas Friedmann’s “First Law of Petro-Politics” expresses the idea that political freedoms diminish in oil …-producing states in direct proportion to increases in the price of oil; there is a whole petro-lexicon purporting to capture the … dilemma of oil: of the “paradox of plenty,” the “resource curse,” “resource wars,” Dutch Disease and so on. I wish to take on …
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Blood diamonds, dirty gold and spatial spill-overs measuring conflict dynamics in West Africa
Balestri, Sara; Maggioni, Mario A. - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 20 (2014) 4, pp. 551-564
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This mine is mine! : how minerals fuel conflicts in Africa
Berman, Nicolas; Couttenier, Mathieu; Rohner, Dominic; … - 2015 - First version: July 2014, This version: June 16, 2015
We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at spatial resolution of 0.5o x 0.5o for all Africa over 1997-2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a positive impact of mining on conict at the local level....
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Household recovery from internal displacement in Northern Uganda
O'Reilly, Colin - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 76 (2015), pp. 203-215
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Farming or fighting? : agricultural price shocks and civil war in Africa
Fjelde, Hanne - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 67 (2015), pp. 525-534
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Tracking under-reported financial flows : China’s development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited
Strange, Austin M.; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2015
China’s provision of development finance to other countries is sizable but reliable information is scarce. We introduce a new open source methodology for collecting project-level development finance information and create a database of Chinese official finance to Africa from 2000 - 2011. We...
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Apocalypse now? : climate change and war in Africa
Weezel, Stijn van - 2018
There is a large empirical literature trying to quantify the potentially adverse affects of climate change on the risk of violent armed conflict, which focuses almost exclusively on linking annual variation in climatic conditions to violence. A major shortcoming of this approach is that it...
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A theory of regional conflict complexes
Silve, Arthur; Verdier, Thierry - 2018
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