Political economy of dynamic resource wars

The political economy of natural resource extraction is analysed in three different contexts. First, if an incumbent faces a threat of being removed once and for all by a rival faction, extraction becomes more voracious, especially if the rebel faction shares rents much more than the incumbent. Seco...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van der Ploeg, R
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2012