China's development model challenges the approaches of traditional Western donors like the World Bank. We argue that … analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in Africa. Aid by both the WB and China does not increase outright … conflict nor any type of citizen protest, on average. Both even reduce outright conflict by governments against civilians …

Using geo-referenced data on development projects by the World Bank and China, we provide a comprehensive analysis of … the effect of aid on conflict using fixed effects and instrumental variables strategies. The results show that aid … projects seem to reduce rather than fuel conflict, on average. Our analysis suggests that this is driven by projects in the …

between - conflict and development. The two phenomena are all too often regarded as ostensibly antagonistic. This was …

ultimate determinants of conflict. However, fractionalization in all its demographic forms is endogenous in the long run. In … the relationship between fractionalization and the propensity of internal conflict statistically insignificant. Finally …