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Resource Wealth and the Risk of Civil War Onset:
News - 10. August 2007

Resource Wealth and the Risk of Civil War Onset:

The existing literature identifies natural resource wealth as a major determinant of civil war. This research note by Indra de Soysa and Eric Neumayer uses a new dataset on natural resource rents that are disaggregated as mineral and energy rents for addressing the resources-conflict relationship.

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