Besley, Timothy; Reynal-Querol, Marta - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2012
There is a great deal of interest in the causes and consequences of conflict in Africa, one of the poorest areas of the … world where only modest economic progress has been made. This paper asks whether post-colonial conflict is, at least in part …, a legacy of historical conflict by examining the empirical relationship between conflict in Africa since independence …