Resource Wealth and the Risk of Civil War Onset: Results from a New Dataset of Natural Resource Rents, 1970—1999

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Oil and political survival (2013, background): “Finally, a considerable empirical literature links natural resources to the onset of civil con ict (e.g. Fearon and Laitin, 2003; Smith, 2004; Humphreys, 2005; de Soysa and Neumayer, 2007; Lujala, 2010).”
Contention and Ambiguity: Mining and the Possibilities of Development (2008, unknown): “This is one of the reasons why natural resource wealth has been identified as a major cause of armed civil conflict (Collier and Hoeffler, 2005; Ross, 2008; for dissenting views see De Soysa and Neumayer, 2007 ).”
Natural Resources and Violent Conflict: Resource Abundance, Dependence and the Onset of Civil Wars (2009, background): “A similar concern applies to analyses based on scaled resource rents (rents divided by national income), as in Collier and Hoeffler (2005) and De Soysa and Neumayer (2007).”
Irevisiting The Greed And Grievance Explanations For Violent Internal Conflict (2009, background): “Resource rents as percentage of gross national income ( De Soysa and Neumayer, 2007 ).”