Natural resources and violent conflict: resource abundance, dependence and the onset of civil wars
In this paper we examine the claim that natural resources invite civil conflict, and challenge the main stylized facts in this literature. We find that the conventional measure of resource dependence is endogenous with respect to conflict, and that instrumenting for dependence implies that it is no...
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University of Oxford
2009
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