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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Main Authors: Brunnschweiler, C, Bulte, E
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: OxCarre 2009