A Phoenix in Flames?: Portfolio Choice and Violence in Civil War in Rural Burundi

Eleonora Nillesen and Philip Verwimp

No wp-2010-044, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper challenges the idea that farmers revert to subsistence farming when confronted with violence from civil war. Macro-economic evidence on economic legacies of civil war suggests that civil wars, while obviously disastrous in the short run, do not need to have persistent effects on long term economic outcomes. New micro-level studies are ambiguous about the impact of civil war for welfare.

Keywords: Agriculture; Consumption; Econometrics; Econometric models (Economic development) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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