Spillover effect of violent conflicts on food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa
研究了乌干达、埃塞俄比亚和马拉维三国暴力冲突对粮食安全的外溢效应,发现冲突会通过空间邻近性影响周边地区的粮食状况,且影响方向因国而异。
We examine violent conflict's spillover effects on food insecurity in Uganda, Ethiopia, and Malawi. Using a contiguity matrix weighted on the distance between housing units and data from the Living Standard Measurement Survey, we find a statistically significant spillover effect of violent conflict on food security in Ethiopia and Uganda. Statistically significant indirect effects of violent conflict on food security were negative within Malawi and positive within Ethiopia. Direct and spillover effects of violent conflicts and other covariates on food security are also analyzed.