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Explaining Maoist control and level of civil conflict in Nepal
CMI working papers
Magnus Hatlebakk | Chr. Michelsen Institute | 2009
Land: Nepal
Does poverty or inequality explain the Maoist insurgency in Nepal? In
contrast to previous studies we limit the analysis to the hill/mountain districts of
Nepal as very few terai (plains) districts are classified as Maoist. And we conduct
separate analyses for Maoist control and level of conflict. We find that income
poverty and land-inequality are main determinants of Maoist influence, while the less
visible income inequality is not so important. We also demonstrate that previous
findings by Murshed and Gates (2005), where landlessness appears to be important,
are due to two outliers that are the core Maoist districts. Without the outliers
landlessness is negatively, and not positively, correlated with Maoist influence.
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