and to provide a new analysis on the relationship between conflict, corruption, natural resources and military expenditure …

Guinea-Bissau endured a major conflict in 1998 and has suffered from persistent political instability since … others, about changes in well-being over time, trust in various institutions, sources of conflicts at the local level, and … result of the conflict, as well as a lack of improvement since then, at least for those in poverty who are highly vulnerable …

The paper presents an alternative narrative to the what led to conflict in the once peaceful Swat Valley in Pakistan …. The widely discussed view has been that Talibanization is what led to the conflict but this paper argues that it was in … fact bad governance over a period of time that led to this conflict by creating an environment where a governance vacuum …

likely importance of endogeneity, using conflict onset as an instrument for military spending in an endogenous growth model … models are outlined and the use of conflict onset as an instrumental variable for military spending in the panel estimates is … that conflict onset is a suitable and successful instrument in this analysis, the results are not directly generalisable …

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