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The geographic spillover of armed conflict in sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Fabrizio Carmigani
  • Parvinder Kler

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Anecdotal accounts of the geographical spread of war inevitably involve Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. But is conflict spillover effectively stronger in SSA than elsewhere? To answer this question, we estimate models of civil war onset comparing SSA against the rest of the world (RoW). We find that in SSA a neighbour at war increases the probability of civil war onset by at least 1%. This is not negligible, considering that the unconditional probability of civil war onset is 1.1% in the global sample and 1.5% in the SSA sample. The spillover effect in the RoW is three times smaller than in SSA and, in general, statistically not different from zero. The results are robust to changes in the definition of neighbourhood and the inclusion of regional variables in the estimating equations to account for clustering effects. Finally, we provide evidence that refugee inflows and the artificial separation of ethnic groups explain part, but not all, of the spillover effect in SSA.
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  • Fabrizio Carmigani & Parvinder Kler, 2014. "The geographic spillover of armed conflict in sub-Saharan Africa," Discussion Papers in Economics economics:201402, Griffith University, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics.
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    2. Abel E. Ezeoha & Chinwe Okoyeuzu & Ama A. Udu & Joseph Edeh, 2018. "Armed Conflicts and Intra‐regional Trade Flows: The Cases of ECOWAS and COMESA," African Development Review, African Development Bank, vol. 30(4), pages 346-361, December.
    3. Fabrizio Carmignani & Parvinder Kler, 2017. "The spillover of war in time and space: exploring some open issues," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(3), pages 273-288, January.

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    • D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • N47 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - Africa; Oceania

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