Conflict and natural resources: what has the literature said on the subject?
Abstract
This paper briefly reviews the most representative academic studies in the international economic literature that relate conflict and natural resources. These studies are mostly cross-country, and provide generalizations about these relationships. Most of the countries studied have mineral resources such as diamonds or oil. These studies show a positive relationship between duration of conflict and presence of resources. This relationship is stronger the easier the resources are to transport.
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