Causes and Consequences of Civil Strife: Micro-Level Evidence from Uganda

By K. Deininger. 2003

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To bridge the gap between case studies and highly aggregate cross-country analyses of civil unrest, we use data from Uganda to explore determinants of civil strife (as contrasted to theft and physical violence) at the community level, as well as the potentially differential impact of these variables on investment and non-agricultural enterprise formation at the household level. We find that distance from infrastructure (a proxy for scarcity of economic opportunities and government investment), asset inequality (social tension), presence of cash crops (expropriable wealth), and lower levels of human capital (ability to take advantage of opportunities in the 'regular' economy) all increase the propensity for civil strife. Furthermore, civil strife, in marked contrast to violence and theft, reduces investment and non-agricultural enterprise startups. Copyright 2003, Oxford University Press.

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Agricultural production amid conflict: Separating the effects of conflict into shocks and uncertainty (2017, background): “Contraction in the supply of goods and higher transactions costs cause price increases and reductions in the size of trade networks (Deininger 2003; Justino 2011).”
Seeds of distrust: conflict in Uganda (2012, background): “Deininger (2003) analyzes household survey data for Uganda and ﬁnds that households more heavily affected by civil strife are less likely to engage in (non-farm) enterprise expansion or startup and are more likely to close down an existing enterprise.”
Commodity Price Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Colombia (2013, background): “First, although previous withincountry studies have shown a correlation between economic conditions and violence (Deininger, 2003; Barron et al. 2004; and Do and Iyer, 2010), the broad scope of our dataset enables cleaner identification of this effect.”
Fate and Fear: Risk and its Consequences in Africa (2008, background): “In the literature on shocks and nutrition in Africa, a close link between ‘shocks’ and long-term socio-economic impacts has been documented.”
Poverty and Violent Conflict: A Micro-Level Perspective on the Causes and Duration of Warfare (2009, unknown): “Collier et al. (2003), Collier and Hoeffler (2004), Deininger (2003) , Elbadawi and Sambanis (2000), Fearon and Laitin (2003), Hegre and Sambanis (2006).”
War and poverty (2010, unknown): “Notably, poverty may drive individuals into violent conflict when productive activities in peaceful times are scarce, unemployment is high and returns from agriculture work are low (Collier and Hoeffler 1998; Deininger 2003; Grossman 2002; Verwimp 2005; Walter 2004).”
The Economic Legacy of Civil War (2013, unknown): “Meanwhile, the relatively rare—but growing— microeconomic analyses have been based on household survey data, focusing on vulnerability to violence (Deininger 2003) and the effects of being a victim of violence upon subsequent political participation (Bellows and Miguel 2009).”