Violent conflicts and state capacity: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper investigates the impacts of conflicts on state-capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a region that has recorded a disproportionate number of armed conflicts and has a high presence in the Fragile States Index rankings. Individually, both conflicts and state-capacity are known to have impo...

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Autores principales:	Adedoyin Babajide, Ahmad Hassan Ahmad, Simeon Coleman
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Publicado:	Elsevier 2021
Materias:	D74 H00 O20 O55 Economics as a science HB71-74
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:4e0c70eaea9d4f84894cbb85c1b06cf32021-12-02T05:04:47ZViolent conflicts and state capacity: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa2667-319310.1016/j.jge.2021.100019https://doaj.org/article/4e0c70eaea9d4f84894cbb85c1b06cf32021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667319321000197https://doaj.org/toc/2667-3193This paper investigates the impacts of conflicts on state-capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a region that has recorded a disproportionate number of armed conflicts and has a high presence in the Fragile States Index rankings. Individually, both conflicts and state-capacity are known to have important implications for economic development, which underscore their relevance for developing countries. Our aim here is to analyze the relationship between them and for this, we analyze a panel of 49 SSA countries spanning 2000–2015. Our results suggest that the effect of conflicts on state-capacity depends on the variable used to proxy state-capacity is important: conflicts diminish state-capacity when tax revenue is used as the proxy, but the effect is positive when proxied by military expenditure. Other proxies consider include regulatory quality, rule of law, and government effectiveness.Adedoyin BabajideAhmad Hassan AhmadSimeon ColemanElsevierarticleD74H00O20O55Economics as a scienceHB71-74ENJournal of Government and Economics, Vol 3, Iss , Pp 100019- (2021)
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spellingShingle	D74 H00 O20 O55 Economics as a science HB71-74 Adedoyin Babajide Ahmad Hassan Ahmad Simeon Coleman Violent conflicts and state capacity: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
description	This paper investigates the impacts of conflicts on state-capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a region that has recorded a disproportionate number of armed conflicts and has a high presence in the Fragile States Index rankings. Individually, both conflicts and state-capacity are known to have important implications for economic development, which underscore their relevance for developing countries. Our aim here is to analyze the relationship between them and for this, we analyze a panel of 49 SSA countries spanning 2000–2015. Our results suggest that the effect of conflicts on state-capacity depends on the variable used to proxy state-capacity is important: conflicts diminish state-capacity when tax revenue is used as the proxy, but the effect is positive when proxied by military expenditure. Other proxies consider include regulatory quality, rule of law, and government effectiveness.
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author	Adedoyin Babajide Ahmad Hassan Ahmad Simeon Coleman
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title	Violent conflicts and state capacity: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
title_short	Violent conflicts and state capacity: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full	Violent conflicts and state capacity: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
title_fullStr	Violent conflicts and state capacity: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full_unstemmed	Violent conflicts and state capacity: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
title_sort	violent conflicts and state capacity: evidence from sub-saharan africa
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2021
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Violent conflicts and state capacity: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

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