@article{ref1,
title="(When) do antipoverty programs reduce violence? India's rural employment guarantee and Maoist conflict",
journal="International organization",
year="2017",
author="Dasgupta, Aditya and Gawande, Kishore and Kapur, Devesh",
volume="71",
number="3",
pages="605-632",
abstract="Theory and extensive evidence connect poverty and underdevelopment to civil conflict yet evidence on the impact of development programs on violence is surprisingly mixed. To break this impasse, we exploit a within-country policy experiment to examine the conditions under which antipoverty programs reduce violence. The roll-out of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme caused a large long-run reduction in Maoist conflict violence, as measured with an original data set based on local-language press sources. These pacifying effects were not uniform, however, but overwhelmingly concentrated in districts with sufficient pre-existing local state capacity to implement the program effectively. The results demonstrate the potential for anti-poverty programs to mitigate violent civil conflict by improving livelihoods, but also highlight the crucial role of state capacity in shaping these effects.   COPYRIGHT: © The IO Foundation 2017<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0020-8183",
doi="10.1017/S0020818317000236",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020818317000236"
}