State Capacity and Violence: Evidence from the Rwandan genocide
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State capacity; violence; Rwanda;JEL classification:
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
- A10 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - General
- N4 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2014-02-15 (All new papers)
- NEP-SOG-2014-02-15 (Sociology of Economics)
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