Are All Resources Cursed? Coffee, Oil and Armed Conflict in Colombia

Vargas Duque, Juan Fernando; Dube, Oeindrila

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dc.creator	Vargas Duque, Juan Fernando
dc.creator	Dube, Oeindrila	spa
dc.date.accessioned	2020-09-11T21:05:39Z
dc.date.available	2020-09-11T21:05:39Z
dc.date.created	2006	spa
dc.description.abstract	The “Resource Curse” posits a positive association between the value of natural commodities and civil conflict. In this paper, we suggest that the value-to-violence relationship differs across commodities, and that the factor intensity of production determines whether a rise in the price of a legally traded good will exacerbate conflict. We exploit exogenous price shocks for coffee and oil to test this hypothesis, using data on politically-motivated violence in Colombia over 1988 to 2004. We find that a drop in coffee prices during the 1990s led to a disproportionate rise in conflict in the coffee areas. Poverty dynamics follow a similar pattern, while substitution into drug crops do not, which suggests that it is the fall in income rather than the drug trade that fuelled this effect. In contrast, we find that oil prices are positively related to clashes with government forces, and that state revenue is used to strengthen military presence in oil areas. Our results suggest that the income channel is critical in determining how price shocks to labor-intensive commodities affect insurgency. However, for capital-intensive goods, the revenue effect predominates in mediating how the value of the commodity affects violence.	eng
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri	https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/29846
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Harvard University	spa
dc.relation.citationTitle	Are All Resources Cursed? Coffee, Oil, and Armed Conflict in Colombia
dc.relation.ispartof	Are All Resources Cursed? Coffee, Oil, and Armed Conflict in Colombia (2006); 58 pp.	spa
dc.relation.uri	https://wcfia.harvard.edu/files/wcfia/files/2007_1_vargas.pdf	spa
dc.rights.accesRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.acceso	Abierto (Texto Completo)	spa
dc.source	Are All Resources Cursed? Coffee, Oil, and Armed Conflict in Colombia	spa
dc.source.instname	instname:Universidad del Rosario
dc.source.reponame	reponame:Repositorio Institucional EdocUR
dc.subject.keyword	Colombia	spa
dc.subject.keyword	Civil War	spa
dc.subject.keyword	Resource Curse	spa
dc.subject.keyword	Difference-in-Differences	spa
dc.title	Are All Resources Cursed? Coffee, Oil and Armed Conflict in Colombia	spa
dc.title.TranslatedTitle	¿Están malditos todos los recursos? Café, petróleo y conflicto armado en Colombia	spa
dc.type	preprint	eng
dc.type.hasVersion	info:eu-repo/semantics/draft
dc.type.spa	Pre-print	spa