Regional Inequality and Internal Conflict

Abstract

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Corruption and political stability: Does the youth bulge matter?

“…Finally, de Groeve et al (2014) have highlighted several critical issues with regard to using counted conflicts, supporting our application of the internal conflict risk scores of the ICRG. Lessmann (2016) shows that the ICRG conflict scores and binary conflict variables are correlated and both point in the same direction.…”

“…The fundamental difference between a terrorist campaign and a civil war is that the former does not hold and manage territory within a nation state. 6 The ICRG internal conflict index is also used in a large number of studies on political stability (e.g., Gupta et al, 2004;Jinjarak, 2009;Bjorvatn and Farzanegan, 2013, 2015, Long, 2008Neumayer, 2004;Lessmann, 2016). We have also examined our hypothesis by using an objective measure of conflict, namely, the maxintyearv413 variable in the UCDP Monadic Conflict Onset and Incidence Dataset (Themnér andWallensteen, 2014 andGleditsch et al, 2002).…”

Natural resource rents and internal conflicts: Can decentralization lift the curse?

“…The literature has shown that low growth rates are significantly related to a higher risk of conflict [see, e.g., Collier and Hoeffler (2004) or Collier et al (2009)]. The effect is even stronger if the resource curse results in more unequal economic development within a country, which will further increase the risk of conflict [Østby et al (2009[Østby et al ( ), Buhaug et al (2012, and Lessmann (2013)]. All these arguments are evidence for the hypothesis that natural resources increase the risk of internal conflict.…”

Spatial inequality, geography and economic activity

“…the regional or spatial inequality between groups of individuals living in different regions. This particular type of inequality has been attracting increasing interest from academics, given that inequality between groups may cause serious problems in a societyfrom inefficient redistribution politics to separatist movements and internal conflict (Østby (2008), Lessmann (2016)). These threats are, of course, more pronounced in ethnically heterogeneous countries due to the coincidence of ethnic inequality and spatial inequality (Kanbur and Venables (2005), Alesina et al (2016)).…”