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The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and development

Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - 2017

We study whether the spatial distribution of natural resources across different ethnic groups within countries impede spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent-seeking model and analysing a set of geocoded data for...

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Chapter 23 Civil War

Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 711-739). 2007

Civil wars are intricate social, political and psychological phenomena. However, economics can offer analytical insights which are useful alongside the more conventional approach of case-studies. Indeed, the policy conclusions drawn from economic analysis sometimes cast doubt on conventional...

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Wartime governance and state-building trajectories in post-conflict societies

Justino, Patricia - 2022

-building processes. This paper explores one such dynamics-the forms of governance exercised by armed groups during wartime-and proposes a … theoretical framework outlining how forms of wartime governance affect trajectories of state-building in the aftermath of civil … governance: how armed groups build institutional capacity in wartime and the characteristics of wartime civilian rule by armed …

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A survey of the causes of civil conflicts : natural factors and economic conditions

Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphael - In: Revue d'économie politique 125 (2015) 6, pp. 787-810

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Resource concentration and civil wars

Morelli, Massimo; Rohner, Dominic - 2013

This paper highlights the importance of natural resource concentration and ethnic group regional concentration for ethnic conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple threat points) is identified. The theory predicts war to be more...

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