In the last decades the number of refugees from conflict regions in Africa increased dramatically. West Africa is the … cradle of migration from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe, were most African migrants with overseas destinations live. The … contributed to Africa's growing economic misery, due to the damaging effects of European selfish external trade policy …

examines the role that multilateral development banks (MDBs) may play in reducing conflict - a role that arises because MDBs …

This paper studies the effects of bilateral foreign aid on conflict escalation and de-escalation. We make three major …-sided and multifaceted nature of conflict. Second, we develop a novel empirical framework. We propose a dynamic ordered probit … aid on conflict by predicting bilateral aid flows based on electoral outcomes of donor countries that are exogenous to …

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, whereas conflict looms under poor executive constraints. Analyzing annual … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …

high in Afghanistan, and especially so in regions that suffered less from conflict. This paper aims to explain this puzzle … by combining a model of conflict intensity at the province level in 2007−14 with a model of consumption at the … household level in 2011. The estimates show that large troop deployments reduced conflict intensity but also boosted local …

When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …