Fractionalization and the Fight over Natural Resources: Ethnicity, language, religion, and the onset of civil war.

We use three different measures of fractionalization (with varying potential for members of one fraction to “mendaciously” pass for a member of another) to revisit the correlation between natural resources and the onset of conflict. The combination of ethnic fractionalization and resource wealth see...

Full description

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