-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by …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 …

-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by …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 …

emphasis on promoting corporate governance practices over the years, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have so far achieved … applied to analyse sets of panel data from 29 countries in Sub Saharan Africa for 7 years from 2008. Findings: The findings … findings for countries within Sub Saharan Africa is that promoting corporate governance only might be insufficient to stimulate …