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Blog Post
April 11, 2019
Twenty-five years ago, travel writer and journalist Robert Kaplan wrote an article for The Atlantic, headlined “The Coming Anarchy.” It was an apocalyptic account of Kaplan’s visit to West Africa and his dark vision that much of the world would end up looking like war-torn Sie...
Blog Post
March 28, 2019
Earlier this month, bipartisan coalitions in the House and Senate introduced legislation to improve the coordination of US government efforts to tackle the root causes of state fragility and violent extremism. If the bills advance, the House and Senate will need to reconcile a few key differences, r...
Blog Post
February 07, 2019
How can countries escape the natural resource curse? And to what extent do cohesive and democratic institutions facilitate this process? In a new CGD working paper, we look at Nigeria—often seen as the prime example of a country cursed by its wealth. We show that when political institutio...
WORKING PAPERS
February 07, 2019
Can institutionalized transfers of resource rents be a source of civil conflict? Are cohesive institutions better at managing conflicts over distribution? We exploit exogenous variation in revenue disbursements to local governments and use new data on local democratic institutions in Nigeria to answ...
Blog Post
October 10, 2018
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize, awarded last week to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, calls attention to sexual violence during war and civil conflicts—a horror too often unstated and wished away. There’s another largely hidden horror the world needs to reckon with: the toll that...