Economic Determinants of Communal Conflict: Evidence from Indonesia

• Main Authors: García, Edgar Demetrio, Nugroho, Indra Prasetya Adi
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2015
• Subjects: Communal conflict; religion; economic growth; inflation; poverty; economic development; Indonesia
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/apssr/vol15/iss2/3; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/apssr/article/1054/viewcontent/2_20garcia_20120215.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

Religion, ethnicity, and politics are typical explanatory variables of violent conflicts. From an economic point of view, economic growth reduces the risk of civil war, yet the economic determinants of conflict have been little studied. In this article, we empirically study the impact of regional ma...