Blattman, Christopher; Miguel, Edward - 2009
-Saharan Africa, the world’s poorest region, nearly a third of countries had active civil
wars or conflicts during the mid-1990s.
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The prevalence of war prompted scholars to ask a sim-
ple question: why there is so much civil war in the world? A decade …
bottom of the world income distribution – many in Africa – have several times more wars than
those in the top quartile …