Poverty and civil war: Revisiting the evidence

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1035-1041

  Djankov, Simeon ^a   Reynal Querol, Marta ^b,c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c CESIFO   (Germany)

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EID: 78650967979     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00046     Document Type: Article

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