The political transfer problem: How cross-border financial windfalls affect democracy and civil war
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Keywords
Foreign transfers; Democracy; Civil war; Political economy; Formal model; Resource curse;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
- F35 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Aid
- H27 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Other Sources of Revenue
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