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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 6006

Klassifikation
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
large-scale land acquisitions
land grabbing
conflict
ethnic tensions
democratic accountability
weak institutions

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Krieger, Tim
Meierrieks, Daniel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2016

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
20.09.2024, 08:21 MESZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Krieger, Tim
  • Meierrieks, Daniel
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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