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Revolution and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Sandinista Revolution
Silano, Filippo - 2023
This study examines the repercussions of the 1979 Sandinista revolution on Nicaragua's economic growth trajectory … place. By doing so, the study quantifies the extent to which the Sandinista revolution influenced the country's economic …. Drawing on the synthetic control method, it constructs an artificial counterpart to Nicaragua with the primary objective of …
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The incursion of Leviathan: wartime territorial control and post-conflict state capacity in Peru
Kreiman, Guillermo - 2022
How do civil war dynamics affect state-building decisions in the aftermath of conflict? This paper argues that, in the post-conflict period, the state focuses its efforts to build state capacity on areas in which state power has been eroded during wartime, with the goal of avoiding future...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353640
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Political Regimes and Economic Growth in Latin America
Albornoz, Facundo; Dutta, Jayasri - 2007
Living in a democratic society has been internationally recognized as a basic human right. While most of the literature tries to identify the effect of democracy on economic prosperity, little work has been done to understand the determinants of economic growth under democracy. This paper...
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Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina
Gallo, Andres A.; Alston, Lee J. - 2009
The future looked bright for Argentina in the early twentieth century. It had already achieved high levels of income per capita and was moving away from authoritarian government towards a more open democracy. Unfortunately, Argentina never finished the transition. The turning point occurred in...
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Hidden Costs of War : Evidence from Nepal's Maoist Insurgency
Zhan, Haikun - 2020
This paper uses a unique longitudinal data set to examine the costly behavioral changes adopted by agricultural households in response to the 1996 — 2006 Maoist insurgency in Nepal. After the war onset, agricultural households that were exposed to high conflict intensity expand their crop...
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Is The 'Surge' Working? Some New Facts
Greenstone, Michael - 2007
There is a paucity of facts about the effects of the recent military Surge on conditions in Iraq and whether it is paving the way for a stable Iraq. Selective, anecdotal and incomplete analyses abound. Policy makers and defense planners must decide which measures of success or failure are most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224168
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Peacefully demobilizing rebels : identity, emotional cues, and the FARC
Aparicio, Juan P.; Jetter, Michael; Parsons, Christopher R. - 2023
In the early 2000s, the Colombian government aired messages during games of the national football team, urging FARC rebels to demobilize. We first study the strategy's effectiveness, leveraging game dates, kick-off times, and spatial-temporal variation in rain-induced signal strength in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249859
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Peacefully Demobilizing Rebels: Identity, Emotional Cues, and the FARC
Aparicio, Juan P.; Jetter, Michael; Parsons, Christopher - 2023
In the early 2000s, the Colombian government aired messages during games of the national football team, urging FARC rebels to demobilize. We first study the strategy's effectiveness, leveraging game dates, kick-off times, and spatial-temporal variation in rain-induced signal strength in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296798
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Opportunity Lost? Economic Development in Argentina, 1929-1955
Kevlihan, Rob - 2010
This paper provides an overview of the failure of Argentina to benefit long term from export led development in the early and middle decades of the last century. Despite being well positioned to take advantage of significant breakdowns in the international economic system Argentina largely...
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