Oil and Civil Conflict : Can Public Spending Have a Mitigation Effect?

In this paper, the conditions under which the spending patterns of oil resources may mitigate the risk of violent domestic conflict are studied. Some recent research suggests that more government spending either in general or specifically in welfar...

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Main Authors: Singh, Raju Jan, Bodea, Cristina, Higashijima, Masaaki
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
IMF
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/01/20153245/oil-civil-conflict-can-public-spending-mitigation-effect
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20101