Arbeitspapier
Land grabbing and ethnic conflict
We study the effect of large-scale land acquisitions on the risk of ethnic tensions for a sample of 133 countries for the 2000-2012 period. Running a series of fractional response models, we find that more land grabbing activity is associated with a higher risk of ethnic tensions, indicating that the negative effects of land deals outweigh their potential benefits. In addition to that, we also show that democratic institutions may moderate the relationship between land deals and ethnic tensions. That is, non-democratic countries face a substantially higher risk of ethnic tensions as the level of large-scale land acquisitions increases; by contrast, strongly democratic countries tend to see lower ethnic tension risk.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Diskussionsbeiträge ; No. 2016-04
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
International Investment; Long-term Capital Movements
Economic Impacts of Globalization: Economic Development
Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
Institutions and Growth
Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
- Thema
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large-scale land acquisitions
land grabbing
conflict
ethnic tensions
democratic accountability
weak institutions
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Krieger, Tim
Meierrieks, Daniel
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Wilfried-Guth-Stiftungsprofessur für Ordnungs- und Wettbewerbspolitik
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Freiburg
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2016
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:21 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Krieger, Tim
- Meierrieks, Daniel
- Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Wilfried-Guth-Stiftungsprofessur für Ordnungs- und Wettbewerbspolitik
Entstanden
- 2016