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Natural resource exports, foreign aid and terrorism

Asongu, Simplice - 2019

Linkages between foreign aid, terrorism and natural resource (fuel and iron ore) exports are investigated in this study. The focus is on 78 developing countries with data for the period 1984 to 2008. The generalised method of moment is employed as empirical strategy. Three main foreign aid...

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Oil and Democracy

Cesari, Anna - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 126 (2014) 3, pp. 265-274

According to a wide literature, oil has a negative effect on the level of democracy because of induced economic and … an estimate of the oil-democracy demultiplier. Moreover, we obtain an indicator of the surplus/deficit of democracy …

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Instability of Democracy as Resource Curse

Polterovich, Victor; Popov, Vladimir; Tonis, Alexander - 2011

of institutions, democratization leads to higher inequality and inequality entails worsening of the attitude to democracy …We suggest a dynamic game theoretic model to explain why resource abundance may lead to instability of democracy … Autocrat down. It is shown that the probability of democracy preservation is decreasing in the amount of resources if the …

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EU and CARICOM : Dilemmas versus Opportunities on Development, Law and Economics (Foreword)

Farah, Paolo Davide - 2021

profound political miscalculation and risk of applying instruments of direct democracy to questions of great complexity …

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The Geography of Natural Resources, Ethnic Inequality and Development

Lessmann, Christian - 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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The Influence of Osborne Dam on the Socio–Economic Development of Ward 23 Makoni District, Zimbabwe

Makururu, Symphathy - 2018

The study aimed at empirically investigating the influence of Osborne dam on the socio-economic development of ward 23, Makoni District. The research was carried out in three villages Kawadza, Nyatito and Dumba, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Questionnaire, interviews guide,...

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Natural-Resource or Market-Seeking FDI in Russia? An Empirical Study of Locational Factors Affecting the Regional Distribution of FDI Entries

Ksenia, Gonchar - 2013

This paper conducts an empirical study of the factors that affect the spatial distribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) across regions in Russia; in particular, this paper is concerned with those regions that are endowed with natural resources and market-related benefits. Our analysis...

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Natural-resource or market-seeking FDI in Russia? : an empirical study of locational factors affecting the regional distribution of FDI entries

Gončar, Ksenija R.; Marek, Philipp - 2013

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Conflict and development : recent research advances and future agendas

Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Martin-Shields, … - 2017

We survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where academic research has started to establish stylized facts and where methodological and knowledge gaps remain. We focus our review on the role of civilian agency in conflict; on wartime...

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The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and development

Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - 2017

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