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Horizontal inequalities, political violence, and nonviolent conflict mobilization : a review of the literature
Hillesund, Solveig; Østby, Gudrun - In: Journal of economic surveys 37 (2023) 5, pp. 1589-1635
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The economics of conflict : theory and empirical evidence
Wärneryd, Karl (ed.) - 2014
Modern economics has largely ignored the issue of outright conflict as an alternative way of allocating goods, assuming instead the existence of well-defined property rights enforced by an undefined third party. And yet even in ostensibly peaceful market transactions, conflict exists as an...
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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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The domestic welfare loss of Syrian civil war : an equivalent income approach
Onder, Harun; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2017
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The domestic welfare loss of Syrian Civil War : an equivalent income approach
Onder, Harun; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2017
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Decentralisation, Economic Inequality and Insurgency
Nandwani, Bharti - 2017
This paper studies if devolution of political power in conflict affected areas can reduce violence by providing an institutional means to address people's grievances. In particular, I look at the impact of a local government, introduced in tribal districts in 1996, on Maoist insurgency in India....
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The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and civil conflicts
Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - In: European journal of political economy 59 (2019), pp. 33-51
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Interregional inequality and civil conflict : are spatial disparities a threat to stability and peace?
Ezcurra, Roberto - In: Defence and peace economics 30 (2019) 7, pp. 759-782
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Escalation of civil war in Nepal : the role of local poverty, inequality and caste polarization
Sharma, Hari; Gibson, John K. - In: Oxford open economics 2 (2023), pp. 1-14
A growing literature examines the effects of poverty, inequality and polarization on civil war but analyses typically use spatially aggregated data. Many civil wars exhibit great spatial heterogeneity so very local effects may be obscured. We study Nepal's civil war that escalated sharply from...
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Deadly cities? : a note on spatial inequalities in mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Günther, Isabel; Harttgen, Kenneth - 2010
In this paper we analyze if an `urban mortality penalty' exists for today's developing countries, repeating the history …-Saharan African countries for differences in child and adult mortality between rural and urban areas. Our findings indicate that child … mortality is higher in rural areas for almost all countries. On average child mortality rates are 13.6 percent in rural areas …
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