TY - JOUR
T1 - Resources and Governance in Sierra Leone’s Civil War
AU - Voors, Maarten
AU - Van Der Windt, Peter
AU - Papaioannou, Kostadis J.
AU - Bulte, Erwin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2017/2/1
Y1 - 2017/2/1
N2 - We empirically investigate the role of natural resources, and governance in explaining variation in the intensity of conflict during the 1991–2002 civil war in Sierra Leone. As a proxy for governance quality we exploit exogenous variation in political competition at the level of the chieftaincy. As a proxy for resources we use data on the location of pre-war mining sites. Our main result is that neither governance nor resources robustly explains the onset or duration of violence during the civil war in Sierra Leone.
AB - We empirically investigate the role of natural resources, and governance in explaining variation in the intensity of conflict during the 1991–2002 civil war in Sierra Leone. As a proxy for governance quality we exploit exogenous variation in political competition at the level of the chieftaincy. As a proxy for resources we use data on the location of pre-war mining sites. Our main result is that neither governance nor resources robustly explains the onset or duration of violence during the civil war in Sierra Leone.
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U2 - 10.1080/00220388.2016.1160068
DO - 10.1080/00220388.2016.1160068
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84966701399
SN - 0022-0388
VL - 53
SP - 278
EP - 294
JO - Journal of Development Studies
JF - Journal of Development Studies
IS - 2
ER -