TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Butter, guns and ice-cream theory and evidence from sub-saharan africa
JO  - Defence and peace economics
A1  - Caruso, Raul
SP  - 269
EP  - 283
VL  - 21
IS  - 3
N2  - This paper is intended to complement the existing literature on civil wars. First, it presents a simple theoretical model of conflict that defines a two-sector economy. In a contested sector, two agents struggle to appropriate the maximum possible fraction of a contestable output. In an uncontested sector, they hold secure property rights over the production of some goods. Agents split their resource endowment between 'butter', 'guns' and 'ice-cream'. Following the theoretical insights the empirical analysis focuses on the relationship between civil wars and different sectors of the economy. In particular, a panel probit specification shows that the incidence of a civil war decreases in the size of manufacturing sector.<p />
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SN  - 1024-2694
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10242690903568975
ID  - ref1
ER  -