Damned by dams? Infrastructure and conflict
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Keywords
dams; infrastructure; conflict; civil war; ethnicity; fractionalization; inequality;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
- H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
- N40 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - General, International, or Comparative
- O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2021-02-15 (Development)
- NEP-HIS-2021-02-15 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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