Paradise is a Bazaar? Greed, Creed, Grievance and Governance

Indra de Soysa

No DP2001-42, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This study examines the relative merits of grievance-based explanations of civil conflict that stress 'Malthusian crises' and 'creed-related,' civilizational clashes against competing propositions of greed- and governance-related explanations. The results from maximum-likelihood analyses on approximately 139 countries over the entire post-Cold War period find little support for Malthusian propositions. Abundant mineral wealth makes countries highly unstable, whereas scarcity of renewable resources is largely unrelated to civil conflict.

Keywords: Econometric models (Economic development); Natural resources; Public administration; Social conflict (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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