全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w23056
来源ID	Working Paper 23056
	The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa
	Eoin McGuirk; Marshall Burke
发表日期	2017-01-16
出版年	2017
语种	英语
摘要	We study the impact of plausibly exogenous global food price shocks on local violence across the African continent. In food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce conflict over the control of territory (what we call "factor conflict") and increase conflict over the appropriation of surplus ("output conflict"). We argue that this difference arises because higher prices raise the opportunity cost of soldiering for producers, while simultaneously inducing net consumers to appropriate increasingly valuable surplus as their real wages fall. In regions without crop agriculture, higher food prices increase both factor conflict and output conflict. We validate local-level findings on output conflict using geocoded survey data on interpersonal theft and violence against commercial farmers and traders. Ignoring the distinction between producer and consumer effects leads to attenuated estimates. Our findings help reconcile a growing but ambiguous literature on the economic roots of conflict.
主题	Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Development and Growth ; Development
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w23056
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580730
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Eoin McGuirk,Marshall Burke. The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa. 2017.

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