Working Paper 351 - Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A New Perspective on the Resource Curse

Rabah Arezki and Markus Brueckner ()
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Markus Brueckner: Australian National University, https://www.anu.edu.au/
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Abstract: Military expenditure shares significantly affect the relationship between the risk of civil conflict outbreak and natural resources. We show that a significant positive correlation between the risk of civil conflict outbreak and resource rents is limited to countries with low military expenditure shares. In countries with high military expenditure shares there is no significant relationship between the risk of civil conflict outbreak and rents from natural resources. An important message is thus that a conflict resource curse is absent in countries with sufficiently large military expenditure shares. However, there is a trade-off: the larger military expenditure shares, the smaller is the effect that resource rents have on economic growth and democracy.

Keywords: Military expenditure; Resource rents; Civil conflict; Democracy JEL classification: D74; Q02; Q34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-08-09
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