IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/erg/wpaper/1538.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Economic, Social and Institutional Determinants of Internal Conflict in Fragile States

Author

Listed:
  • Syed Muhammad All-e-Raza Rizvi

    (Université Clermont Auvergne)

  • Marie-Ange Véganzonès-Varoudakis

    (Université Clermont Auvergne)

Abstract

In this paper, we use fixed-effect Poisson regressions (FEPR) with robust standard errors and instrumental variables (IV) to study the economic, social, and institutional determinants of internal conflicts in 58 fragile states from 2004 to 2017. We show that effective institutions (measured by judicial efficiency) and higher incomes could help reduce conflict in fragile states. In contrast, trade reform does not seem to mitigate violence in these countries. It also appears that educational and democratic institutions can fuel conflict in some cases. These results imply that education and trade liberalization do not have the expected effects in fragile countries, which should first improve their social, economic, and institutional situation before benefiting from economic reform and education. This may also be the case for political reforms, as democratic experiences seem to lead to increased violence in some countries in our sample.

Suggested Citation

  • Syed Muhammad All-e-Raza Rizvi & Marie-Ange Véganzonès-Varoudakis, 2022. "Economic, Social and Institutional Determinants of Internal Conflict in Fragile States," Working Papers 1538, Economic Research Forum, revised 20 Feb 2022.
    • Handle: RePEc:erg:wpaper:1538
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://erf.org.eg/publications/economic-social-and-institutional-determinants-of-internal-conflict-in-fragile-states-2/
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://bit.ly/35zh6jI
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:erg:wpaper:1538. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sherine Ghoneim (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/erfaceg.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.