The Freedom Factor: Is Economic Freedom Key to Reducing Internal Conflict and State Fragility? – An Empirical Study of 92 Developing Countries

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  2026

• Venue

  Economic Analysis and Policy

• Publication date

  2026-01-01

• Fields of study

  Not labeled

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.eap.2026.01.062
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Wages to woes: examining the relationship between real wage and conflict in Africa

  2025cited by this paper
• Unpacking Corruption: The Role of Economic Freedom in Developing Countries

  2025cited by this paper
• How is Central Bank Independence Shaping Income Inequality in Developing Countries?

  2024cited by this paper
• Cultural Tension and Large- and Small-Scale Internal Conflicts

  2024cited by this paper
• Quantile via Moments Panel Data Analysis: Dissecting Political Regimes and the Spectrum of Internal Conflicts

  2024cited by this paper
• Economic freedom and foreign direct investment: Are they related?

  2022cited by this paper
• Free market capitalism and societal inequities: Assessing the effects of economic freedom on income inequality and the equity of access to opportunity, 1990–2017

  2021cited by this paper
• Impacts of Economic Freedom on Economic Growth in Developing Countries

  2021cited by this paper
• Middle East and North Africa: Terrorism and Conflicts

  2020cited by this paper
• Longer-Run Economic Consequences of Pandemics

  2020cited by this paper
• A survey of the empirical literature

  2020cited by this paper
• Socio-economic Factors on the Evolution of Mortality in Europe in the XXI Century: Policy Proposals to Face the COVID-19 Crisis

  2020cited by this paper
• The Relationship between Economic Freedom and Poverty Rates: Cross-Country Evidence

  2020cited by this paper
• Quantiles via moments

  2019cited by this paper
• Political Capitalism

  2018cited by this paper
• Free Markets and Civil Peace: Some Theory and Empirical Evidence

  2017cited by this paper
• Does economic freedom increase income inequality? Evidence from the EU countries

  2016cited by this paper
• The rise of capitalism and the roots of anti-American terrorism

  2015cited by this paper
• Are Economic Development and Education Improvement Associated with Participation in Transnational Terrorism?

  2015cited by this paper
• Peace through globalization and capitalism? Prospects of two liberal propositions

  2014cited by this paper
• Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens

  2014cited by this paper
• Democracy and Vulnerability

  2014cited by this paper
• Who Creates Jobs? Small versus Large versus Young

  2013cited by this paper
• Capitalist Development and Civil War

  2012cited by this paper
• Investigating the interaction effect of democracy and economic freedom on corruption: A cross-country quantile regression analysis

  2012cited by this paper
• Kant, Liberal Legacies and Foreign Affairs

  2012cited by this paper
• The Origins of Terrorism - Cross-Country Estimates on Socio-Economic Determinants of Terrorism

  2011cited by this paper
• The Hidden Hand Wrestles Rebellion: Theory and Evidence on How Economic Freedom Prevents Civil Violence

  2011cited by this paper
• Small vs. Young Firms Across the World: Contribution to Employment, Job Creation, and Growth

  2011cited by this paper
• ON ETHNIC CONFLICT AND THE ORIGINS OF TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISM

  2010cited by this paper
• A SURVEY OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC COSTS OF CONFLICT

  2010cited by this paper
• Why Do Ethnic Groups Rebel?: New Data and Analysis

  2010cited by this paper
• Is the hidden hand an iron fist? Capitalism and civil peace, 1970-2005

  2010cited by this paper
• Economic freedom and equality: Friends or foes?

  2009cited by this paper
• Do Democracy and Free Markets Protect Us From Terrorism?

  2008cited by this paper
• Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions

  2008cited by this paper
• The Capitalist Peace

  2007cited by this paper
• Robust Standard Errors for Panel Regressions with Cross-Sectional Dependence

  2007cited by this paper
• When Globalization Discontent Turns Violent: Foreign Economic Liberalization and Internal War

  2007cited by this paper
• Rooted in Poverty?: Terrorism, Poor Economic Development, and Social Cleavages 1

  2006cited by this paper
• The political economy of freedom, democracy and transnational terrorism

  2006cited by this paper
• Free to Trust: Economic Freedom and Social Capital

  2006cited by this paper
• Sensitivity Analysis of Empirical Results on Civil War Onset

  2006cited by this paper
• Institutional Inconsistency and Political Instability: Polity Duration, 1800–2000

  2006cited by this paper
• Market oriented institutions and policies and economic growth: A critical survey

  2006cited by this paper
• Unbundling Institutions

  2005cited by this paper
• Resource Rents, Governance, and Conflict

  2005cited by this paper
• On Political Violence and its Avoidance

  2004cited by this paper
• Economic Freedom and Conflict Reduction: Evidence from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s

  2003cited by this paper
• Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War

  2003cited by this paper
• The Political Economy of Clientelism

  2002cited by this paper
• Toward a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change, and Civil War, 1816–1992

  2001cited by this paper
• The Demise of the Nation-State?

  2001cited by this paper
• Religious Causes of Discrimination against Ethno-Religious Minorities

  2000cited by this paper
• Modernization, Cultural Change, and the Persistence of Traditional Values

  2000cited by this paper
• To Cultivate Peace: Agriculture in a World of Conflict

  1999cited by this paper
• Greed and Grievance in Civil War

  1999cited by this paper
• Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimation with Spatially Dependent Panel Data

  1998cited by this paper
• Winners Take All: The Politics of Partial Reform in Postcommunist Transitions

  1998cited by this paper
• INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES

  1995cited by this paper
• A Sensitivity Analysis of Cross-Country Growth Regressions

  1991cited by this paper
• Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations

  1991cited by this paper
• Cross-National Variation in Political Violence

  1990cited by this paper
• Dependency and Rebellion: A Cross-National Analysis

  1990cited by this paper
• Political terrorism and the size of government: A positive institutional analysis of violent political activity

  1983cited by this paper
• The Causes of Terrorism

  1981cited by this paper
• THE CAUSES OF WAR AND THE CONDITIONS OF PEACE

  1960cited by this paper
• Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy

  1959cited by this paper
• THE ROLE OF INCOME INEQUALITY ON INTERNAL CONFLICT, TER-RORISM, POLITICAL VIOLENCE, CIVIL WAR AND CIVIL DISORDERS – PANEL DATA ANALYSIS WITH QUANTILE VIA MOMENTS AND DRISCOLL AND KRAY STANDARD ERRORS

  year unknowncited by this paper
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics Working Paper Series Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality *

  year unknowncited by this paper

• From wages to conflict: Does an increase in the real wage decrease internal conflict in developing countries?

  2026cites this paper