Some scholars suggest that the Middle East's oil wealth helps explain its failure to democratize.
This article examines three aspects of this “oil impedes democracy” claim. First, is it true? …

Since the late 1990s, there has been a flood of research on natural resources and civil war.
This article reviews 14 recent cross-national econometric studies, and many qualitative …

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Recent studies have found that natural resources and civil war are highly correlated. Yet the
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How does a state's natural resource wealth influence its economic development? For the
past fifty years, versions of this question have been explored by both economists and political …

Women have made less progress toward gender equality in the Middle East than in any other
region. Many observers claim this is due to the region's Islamic traditions. I suggest that oil, …

Many scholars claim that democracy improves the welfare of the poor. This article uses data
on infant and child mortality to challenge this claim. Cross‐national studies tend to exclude …

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▪ Abstract Studies of natural resource wealth and civil war have been hampered by measurement
error, endogeneity, lack of robustness, and uncertainty about causal mechanisms. This …