Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/190003 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2017/158
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
India has employed a variety of military, political, and economic measures to combat the long running insurgency in Kashmir with little evidence on what contributes to stability in the region. This paper uses a variety of tests to detect structural breaks in the time series for violence over the period 1998-2014. We identify a transition from a high violence regime to a low violence regime that coincides with (i) the fencing of the border with Pakistan (ii) the implementation of a large-scale development programme, and (iii) the phasing in of the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). Our results highlight the complementary roles of development programmes and security in reducing violence.
Subjects: 
conflict
multiple structural breaks
Nonlinear Time Series Models
Jammu
Kashmir
India
JEL: 
C22
D74
F51
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-384-4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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