The economic impact of peacekeeping. Evidence from South Sudan

Raul Caruso (), Prabin Khadka, Ilaria Petrarca and Roberto Ricciuti

Defence and Peace Economics, 2017, vol. 28, issue 2, 250-270

Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of the deployment of United Nations Blue Helmets on economic activity in South Sudan with a special focus on agricultural production. Since UN troops are predicted to improve security, in particular, we expect a positive relationship between deployment of UN blue Helmets and cereal production. We test our hypothesis using an original data-set including all the 78 South Sudanese counties over the period 2009–2011. We control for the non-random assignment of UN troops through an Instrumental Variables approach. Our empirical results show that a 10% increase in the size of the troop allows the production of additional 600 tonnes.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2015.1122282

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