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Natural-Resource Rents and Internal Conflicts - Can Decentralization Lift the Curse?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Lessmann, Christian; … - CESifo - 2013

We study how natural-resource rents affect the risk of internal conflict within countries and how the federal structure of countries influences this relationship. Natural-resource abundance may induce excessive rent-seeking and thus increase the risk of internal conflict. Fiscal and political...

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Do Economic and Political Institutions Mitigate the Risk of Natural Resource Conflicts?

O'Reilly, Colin - 2015

identification strategy to test these models. However, Lei and Michaels (2014) find that exogenous discoveries of “giant” oil fields … of the oil discovery. Results indicate that for conflicts over control of territory, strong economic and political … institutions reduce the likelihood of conflict in the wake of the discovery of oil. This empirical finding is consistent with basic …

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Natural-resource rents and internal conflicts : can decentralization lift the curse? ; conference paper

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Lessmann, Christian; … - 2013 - This version: February 2013

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Nuclear power, democracy, development, and nuclear warheads: Determinants for introducing nuclear power

Sorge, Lars; Neumann, Anne; von Hirschhausen, Christian R. - 2019

This paper analyzes the nature of democratic development in a nation on the process of introducing nuclear power over the period 1960 - 2017 for an unbalanced panel of 171 countries. Given the involved political process of introducing nuclear power and its political importance, as well as the...

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Nuclear Power, Democracy, Development, and Nuclear Warheads : Determinants for Introducing Nuclear Power

Sorge, Lars - 2019

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Mining for peace

Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2023

The energy transition increases the demand for minerals from ethnically diverse, conflict-prone developing countries. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in three steps: First, we propose a theoretical model to...

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At Africa's expense? : disaggregating the social impact of Chinese mining operations

Wegenast, Tim; Strüver, Georg; Giesen, Juliane; … - 2017

Qualitative studies and media reports suggest that the presence of Chinese oil or mining companies generates …

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Commodity shocks, factor intensity and conflicts in Africa

Gantier Mita, Marcelo - 2020

Natural resources are often related to conflicts. The Dal B'o & Dal B'o (2011) theory states that income shocks affect capital- and labor-intensive sectors differently. Using sub-national cells covering the African continent for 1997-2010, I find that conflicts react differently to positive...

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Papua New Guinea and the natural resource curse

Avalos, Nayda; Gonzales Stuva, Veronica; Heal, Adam; … - 2013

Several empirical studies have found that when exports are concentrated in natural resources countries experience slower rates of economic growth. Various potential channels for this relationship have been identified including Dutch disease, volatility in the terms of trade, and impacts on...

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Battlefield bargains : the high-stakes dance of rebel finances and ceasefire deals

Kupek, Sebastian - 2025

Wars fueled by resource wealth pose complex challenges for conflict resolution. I combine data on conflict events, rebel resource dependence, world market prices, and ceasefire details to investigate how fluctuations in rebel funding affect the likelihood of ceasefires. Increased funding...

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