Congo: The Prize of Predation

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Contesting resources – rent seeking, conflict and the natural resource curse (2006, background): “Collier and Hoeffler (1998), Baker (2003), Fors and Olsson (2004) and Ross (2004b) explicitly consider the link between conflict and natural resources.”
Cursed by Resources or Institutions (2006, unknown): “seeking. Such rent seeking may also take the form of civil wars (Skaperdas 2002), see for instance Olsson and Congdon Fors (2004) on the case of Congo.”
War as a Commitment Problem (2004, background): “…do include a resource tradeoff but not an explicit decision to fight or attack ~for example, Hirshleifer 2001; Rajan and Zingales 2000; and Olsson and Fors 2004! whereas those developed by political scientists typically do include an explicit decision to attack but not a resource…”
Natural Resources and the ‘Quality’ of Economic Development (2011, unknown): “For these technical reasons, in the absence of an effective public apparatus, alluvial deposits are easily controlled by factions or rebels groups, that fund their activities through the sale of smuggled diamonds (Goreux, 2001; Olsson and Congdon Fors, 2004; Olsson, 2006, 2007).”
A Closer Look at Oil, Diamonds, and Civil War (2006, methodology): “Most rely on qualitative data, although several use survey or other types of quantitative data (Angrist & Kugler 2005; Humphreys & Weinstein, unpublished manuscript) or employ formal models (Olsson & Fors 2004).”