Food prices and political instability

Rabah Arezki and Markus Brückner

No 01/2011, NCID Working Papers from Navarra Center for International Development, University of Navarra

Abstract: We examine the effects that variations in the international food process have on democracy and intra-state conflict using panel data for over 120 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that in Low Income countries increases in the international food prices lead to a significant deterioration of democratic institutions and a significant increase in the incidence of anti-government demonstrations, riots and civil conflict. In the High Income countries variations in he international food prices have no significant effects on democratic institutions and measures of intra-state conflict. Our empirical results point to a significant externality of variations in the international food prices on Low Income Countries social and political stability.

Keywords: Conflict; Political institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 O55 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 52 pages
Date: 2011-03
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