Oil and Civil Conflict : Can Public Spending Have a Mitigation Effect?

Oil and Civil Conflict : Can Public Spending Have a Mitigation Effect?

This paper explores the conditions under which public spending could minimize violent conflict related to oil wealth. Previous work on the resource curse suggests that oil can lead to violent conflict because it increases the value of the state as a prize or because it undermines the state’s bureauc...

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Main Authors: Bodea, Cristina, Higashijima, Masaaki, Singh, Raju Jan
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2016
Subjects:
civil conflict
natural resources
oil
public spending
military spending
welfare spending
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23675

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