Blood diamonds, dirty gold and spatial spill-overs measuring conflict dynamics in West Africa

Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 551-564

  Balestri, Sara ^a   Maggioni, Mario A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Africa; civil conflict; natural resources; spatial econometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916197514     PISSN: 10792457     EISSN: 15548597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/peps-2014-0026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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