Questions and Answers of Development Economics

What difficulty do we encounter when attempting to understand the effect of income per capita on conflict? How do Miguel, Satyanath, and Sergenti deal with this problem?
Conflict can have an effect on civil participation. Explain.
Read the following article by Massimo Guidolin and Eliana La Ferrara on how private firms can benefit from conflict: http://research.stlouisfed.org/wp/2005/2005-004.pdf. Explain how the authors were
Some countries, such as Costa Rica, have no army. On the Internet, find the list of countries that have no standing army. Using that information, identify the factors that allow these countries to
Assume two countries, A and B, are considering going to war with each other. Each has initial resources of 100. In case of war, the winner gets the resources of the losing country, but pays a cost of

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