Blouin, Max; Pallage, Stéphane - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2009
We examine the effects of famine relief efforts (food aid) in regions undergoing civil war. In our model, warlords seize a fraction of all aid and use it to feed soldiers. They hire their troops within a population of farmers heterogeneous in skills. We determine the equilibrium distribution of...