Resource discovery and conflict in Africa: what do the data show?
The empirical relationship between natural resources and conflict in Africa is not very well understood. Using a novel geocoded dataset on resource discovery and conflict we are able to construct a quasi-natural experiment to explore the causal effect (giant and major) oil and mineral discoveries on...
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University of Oxford
2015
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