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The political economy of opposition groups : peace, terrorism, or civil conflict?

Jetter, Michael; Li, Bei - 2017

This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, hereas...

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Foreign aid, resource rents and institution-building in Mozambique and Angola

Pérez Niño, Helena; Le Billon, Philippe - 2013

often contrasted, with foreign aid-dependent Mozambique hailed a success compared to oil rentier Angola. This paper … partly through high rent capture and incipient socialization of massive oil rents. We conclude by discussing the likely …

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Natural resource exports, foreign aid and terrorism

Asongu, Simplice - 2019

Linkages between foreign aid, terrorism and natural resource (fuel and iron ore) exports are investigated in this study. The focus is on 78 developing countries with data for the period 1984 to 2008. The generalised method of moment is employed as empirical strategy. Three main foreign aid...

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Donor-supported approaches to improving extractives governance : lessons from Nigeria and Ghana

Buckley, Joanna; McCulloch, Neil; Travis, Nick - 2017

the UK Department for International Development: the Facility for Oil Sector Transparency and Reform in Nigeria, and the … Ghana Oil and Gas for Inclusive Growth programme in Ghana. The paper outlines five lessons learned from these examples …

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Conditional linkages between iron ore exports, foreign aid and terrorism

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

We employ interactive quantile regressions to assess conditional linkages between foreign aid, iron ore exports and terrorism from a panel of 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. The following main findings are established. First, it is primarily in the countries with the highest...

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Fuel exports, aid and terrorism

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017

This study employs interactive quantile regressions to assess the conditional role of foreign aid in reducing the potentially negative effect of terrorism on fuel exports in 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. Bilateral and multilateral aid indicators are used whereas terrorism...

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Peace, terrorism, or civil conflict? : understanding the decision of an opposition group

Jetter, Michael - 2016

are available from natural resources, oil, or foreign development assistance. A one-standard-deviation increase in rents …

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Three empirical studies on development : democracy, the resource curse and aid

Pettersson, Jan - 2005

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The contributions of foreign aid and natural resource wealth to democratic institutions : evidence from over 40 years of sub-Sahara Africa's history

Acheampong, Alex O.; Taden, John - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 16 (2024), pp. 1-19

repression theories are valid for rent from mineral, gas and oil resources (iii) the democracy indices respond positively and …This study evaluates the influence of natural resource rents and foreign aid on democracy using panel data from 45 SSA … countries from 1980 to 2021. Using five different democracy indices, six different foreign aid variables and six different …

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The Formation of Cross-Sector Development Partnerships : How Bridging Agents Shape Project Agendas and Longer-Term Alliances

Manning, Stephan; Roessler, Daniel - 2017

Cross-sector development partnerships (CSDPs) are project-based collaborative arrangements between business, government, and civil society organizations in support of international development goals such as sustainability, health education, and economic development. Focusing on public private...

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