Resources and Governance in Sierra Leone’s Civil War

Maarten Voors; Peter Van Der Windt; Kostadis J. Papaioannou; Erwin Bulte

doi:10.4324/9781315179445-8

Resources and Governance in Sierra Leone’s Civil War

Maarten Voors
, Peter Van Der Windt
, Kostadis J. Papaioannou
, Erwin Bulte

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We empirically investigate the role of natural resources, and governance in explaining variation in the intensity of conflict during the 1991–2002 civil war in Sierra Leone. As a proxy for governance quality we exploit exogenous variation in political competition at the level of the chieftaincy. As a proxy for resources we use data on the location of pre-war mining sites. Our main result is that neither governance nor resources robustly explains the onset or duration of violence during the civil war in Sierra Leone.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Why Does Development Fail in Resource Rich Economies
Subtitle of host publication	The Catch 22 of Mineral Wealth
Editors	Elissaios Papyrakis
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	104-120
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315179445
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315179445-8
Publication status	Published - 17 May 2019

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Resources and Governance in Sierra Leone’s Civil War. / Voors, Maarten; Van Der Windt, Peter; Papaioannou, Kostadis J. et al.
Why Does Development Fail in Resource Rich Economies: The Catch 22 of Mineral Wealth. ed. / Elissaios Papyrakis. Routledge, 2019. p. 104-120.

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