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| Title: | | Food prices and political instability  |
| Authors: | | Arezki, Rabah Brückner, Markus |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working paper: Resources and Environment Economics 3544 |
| Abstract: | | We examine the effects that variations in the international food prices have on democracy and intra-state conflict using panel data for over 120 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that in Low Income Countries increases in the international food prices lead to a significant deterioration of democratic institutions and a significant increase in the incidence of anti-government demonstrations, riots, and civil conflict. In the High Income Countries variations in the international food prices have no significant effects on democratic institutions and measures of intra-state conflict. Our empirical results point to a significant externality of variations in international food prices on Low Income Countries' social and political stability. |
| Subjects: | | food prices conflict political institutions |
| JEL: | | O00 P00 Q00 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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