Syed Mansoob Murshed
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Syed Mansoob Murshed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Syed Mansoob |
| FAMILY NAME | Murshed |
| SIGNATURE | MURSHED S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Coventry University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8360-033X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A financial resource curse in the context of a small developing resource-based economy: The case of Suriname
Our study explores the impact of mineral resources on financial development in Suriname via a commodity-price-shock channel. Using a Structural VAR (SVAR) model and time series data from 1980 to 2021, we find evidence of a financial resource curse. More specifically, negative commodity price shocks undermine financial development by reducing bank lending and deposits, deteriorating bank asset quality, lowering bank profitability and widening the …
Investigating the Effects of Economic Sanctions on Food Production in Target Countries: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (1990–2022)
This study examines the impact of economic sanctions on food production in SSA, measured by the Food Production Index (FPI). Using an unbalanced panel of SSA countries over the period 1990–2022, we employ a fixed-effects model with Driscoll–Kraay standard errors to address cross-sectional dependence, autocorrelation, and heteroskedasticity. The results reveal that both trade and financial sanctions exert negative and statistically significant eff…
Diversity Matters in the World of Finance: Does Ethnic and Religious Diversity Hinder Financial Development in Developing Countries
This paper investigates the relationship between ethnic and religious diversity ( ED and RD ) and financial development using the data from 102 developing countries. It is widely accepted that financial depth and the more ready availability of finance have a central role to play in fostering economic growth. We hypothesize that financial development in developing countries, especially those at the early stages of economic development, may be reta…
How Inequality and Repression Affect the Link Between Food Insecurity and Urban Social Disorder
We examine the relationship between food insecurity and urban social disorder, featuring the degree of inequality and levels of governmental repression. We develop a formal theoretical model, and our empirical results suggest that food price volatility contributes significantly to conflict events as measured by the PRIO Urban Social Disorder data. We measure vertical inequality using the V-DEM egalitarian index, which is negatively significant; g…
The Socio-Economic Impact of an Abrupt Loss of Oil: A Synthetic Control Approach in the Case of Sudan
With the secession of South Sudan in 2011, the Republic of Sudan experienced a sudden loss of more than 70% of its oil reserves. Few countries have experienced such a dramatic macroeconomic adjustment within a short period of time. While earlier studies have explored the socio-economic impacts of oil discoveries, little is known about what happens in the case of an abrupt reversal of an oil windfall. We make use of the synthetic control method to…
A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of External Interventions on Conflict Intensity: Navigating Heterogeneity and Unveiling Genuine Effects
We investigate 833 reported estimates detailing the impact of external interventions aimed at alleviating civil war on conflict intensity. This investigation encompasses 34 studies conducted between 1996 and 2020, primarily focusing on African countries. While the average reported effect is both negative and statistically significant, our analysis reveals substantial divergence in the results. We apply meta-regression analysis to examine the sour…
Media Credibility and Voter Penalization of Corrupt Politicians in Latin America
There has been a significant growth of social media as a means to inform oneself about politics. This article explores the consequences of this trend on the credibility audiences attribute to news exposing corrupt politicians and on their willingness to penalize the exposed politicians in elections. The study focuses on ten Latin American cities and employs a randomized control trial using experimental data embedded in a survey. Through this meth…
Inequality: The scourge of the twenty-first century
Rising inequality is a ubiquitous problem, encompassing every geographical region and nation in the world.Inequality can be contended to have replaced unemployment as our most vital economic issue.After nearly six decades of declining inequality from the time of the First World War, the process has reversed itself with a vengeance, and we may be about to surpass the very high levels of inequality that prevailed in 1914.The causes are multifarious…
International Collaboration in Times of Pandemics: An Urgent Need for Reforming our Global Financial System
Better, swifter and more responsive international coordination is needed within our global financial system for the containment of the pandemic and its effects. This requires better international tax coordination with a higher global minimum corporate tax, comprehensive coverage of sectors and firms, inclusion of all current tax havens and more generous redistribution of excess profits to developing nations based on user location. There also need…
External arms embargoes and their implications for government expenditure, democracy and internal conflict
We examine how arms imports reductions due to external arms embargoes affect military expenditure, democratic quality and internal conflict in a sample of 48 countries from 1990 to 2017. We construct a theoretical model of arms restrictions influencing probabilities of peaceful and conflictual states via actions and efforts undertaken by the government and rebels to promote peace. We postulate that the effect of external arms embargoes on interna…
Revisiting the oil wealth-growth nexus: The role of economic norms in avoiding the oil curse
Beyond remain vs. leave: Understand changing voter perceptions and attitudes towards Populism—evidence from Scotland and the West Midlands
This article explores the link between populism and governance arrangements. Adopting a comparative approach between the West Midlands and Scotland, it utilises novel primary qualitative data alongside official results and demographic statistics. Paying particular attention to the perspectives of remain-voters in “left behind” areas and how they perceive their Leave-voting counterparts, the article finds that despite divergent voting patterns bot…
Reformulating Jan Tinbergen’s normative vision on welfare and security
This article builds on the intellectual legacy of Jan Tinbergen by extending his analysis on welfare and security into a framework involving strategic interaction. I first incorporate welfare and security in terms of interstate tensions into a single utility or payoff function. An uncertain world is characterized by states that are more peaceful, and others where nations are more hostile to each other. Both conflictual and peaceful outcomes lie a…
Capitalism and Covid-19: Crisis at the Crossroads
Existential threats, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have historically engendered intellectual paradigm shifts, and even systemic transformations in the economy and polity. This paper focuses on two inter-related phenomena: rising economic inequality and the diminution of liberal democracy, a feature common to both developed and developing countries set in the context of a ubiquitous and globalized capitalism. In the post-pandemic world, we need t…
Improving Maternal Health Care in a Post Conflict Setting: Evidence from Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
We evaluate a development programme with an important maternal health care component in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. The region and its mostly indigenous people experienced violent conflict in the past and face a constant risk of recurring conflict. Given this fragile setting, our work differs from conventional impact evaluations by incorporating two conflict indicators: the household’s actual experience of violence and fears of futu…
International transfers and Dutch Disease: Evidence from South Asian countries
We investigate the Dutch Disease impact of migrant's remittances and foreign aid using a yearly panel data of eight South Asian countries for the period of 1975–2013. An increase in per capita remittances erodes international competitiveness by appreciating the real effective exchange rate, also leading to a fall in traded to non-traded goods production ratio in the economy; hardly any statistically significant impact of foreign aid on these vari…
When Education Explains Strong Institutions: Trade Policy also Matters
Rentier Statebuilding in a Post-Conflict Economy: The Case of Kosovo
Kosovo has been under various forms of international administration since 1999. Although the political dimension of this international experience has been widely studied by scholars - especially those associated with the critical theory of liberal peacebuilding - the economic dimension of international rule has received less attention. This article explores the economic dimension by linking insights from rentier theory with critical approaches to…
Give War A Chance’: All-Out War as a Means of Ending Conflict in the Cases of Sri Lanka and Colombia
This article investigates the military approach as a means of solving protracted civil conflicts, in particular focusing on the cases of Sri Lanka and Colombia in comparison. The approach adopted is to study the emergence of these military options within the context of each country's history and to assess whether the call for war was merely a consequence of the international ‘war on terror’, or driven by internal elements. The article explores th…
Population Pressure, Horizontal Inequality and Political Violence: A Disaggregated Study of Indonesian Provinces, 1990–2003
All parts of a country are rarely equally affected by political violence. Yet statistical studies largely fail to address sub-national conflict dynamics. We address this gap studying variations in 'routine' and 'episodic' violence between Indonesian provinces from 1990 to 2003. Within a grievance framework, the article focuses on the violence potential of resource scarcity and population pressure, as well as inter-group dynamics related to polari…
The Clash of Civilizations and the Interaction between Fear and Hatred
This paper models conflictive interaction between a West European state and a domestic dissident immigrant Muslim minority group in terms of fear and hatred. The genesis and production of both phenomena are modelled. Identity is crucial and provides the micro-foundations of dissident Muslim behaviour by solving the collective action problem; however, complex multiple identities are possible. Hatred of the West arises both because of the economic …
Any Ties that Bind? Economic Diplomacy on the South Asian Subcontinent
The ‘liberal peace’ model emphasizes the importance of commercial ties and shared norms for peaceful inter-state relations. In view of that, economic diplomacy promotes cross-border economic activities not only for direct economic gains but also for the indirect benefits of stable political relations. Ever since the creation of India and Pakistan in 1947, political relations between the two states have been tense and have witnessed six military c…
Identity and Islamic Radicalization in Western Europe
This article argues that both socio-economic disadvantage and political factors, such as foreign policy of the West about the Muslim world, along with historical grievances, play a part in the development of Islamic radicalized collective action in Western Europe. We emphasize the role of group identity-based individual behaviour in organizing collective action within radicalized Muslim groups. Inasmuch as culture plays any role at all in radical…
Explaining Civil War: A Rational Choice Approach
Not loving thy neighbour as thyself: Trade, democracy and military expenditure explanations underlying India-Pakistan rivalry
This article analyses whether greater international trade, democracy and reduced military spending lower hostility between India and Pakistan. Conflict between the two nations can be best understood in a multivariate framework where variables such as economic performance, multilateral trade with the rest of the world, bilateral trade, military expenditure, democracy scores and population are simultaneously taken into account. The empirical invest…
Growth, Distribution, and Uneven Development
Journal Article Growth, Distribution, and Uneven Development Get access Growth, Distribution, and Uneven Development. By DUTT (AMITAVA KRISHNA). (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 262. £32.50 hardback, US $49.50 hardhack. ISBN 0 521 38177 0.) S. M. Murshed S. M. Murshed University of Surrey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 101, Issue 408, 1 Sept…
Conflict, Civil War and Underdevelopment: An Introduction
Conflict has been a feature of human society since time immemorial. Disputes that arise may be organized around social class, ethnicity, religion, region, or some combination of these factors. The struggle can be over economic opportunities, as well as political and civil rights, among other contestable factors. In peaceful societies, conflict is channelled into nonviolent means and institutions for both its expression and resolution. Civil war i…
Socio-Economic Determinants of Everyday Violence in Indonesia: An Empirical Investigation of Javanese Districts, 1994-2003
Social violence in Indonesia centres around vigilantism/popular justice and group brawls. This kind of violence occurs frequently and, hence, can be described as `routine'. While episodic violence associated with intercommunal and secessionist strife gets most attention, the everyday type does not produce headlines, escaping academic scrutiny. As a result, there is no social policy to reduce everyday violence other than police responses. This stu…
Identity and Islamic Radicalization in Western Europe
This article argues that both socio-economic disadvantage and political factors, such as foreign policy of the West about the Muslim world, along with historical grievances, play a part in the development of Islamic radicalized collective action in Western Europe. We emphasize the role of group identity-based individual behaviour in organizing collective action within radicalized Muslim groups. Inasmuch as culture plays any role at all in radical…
Credibility and Reputation in Peacemaking
This article analyses credibility and reputation in the context of peace negotiations. The model is applicable to the credibility of peace agreements in post-conflict situations in the immediate aftermath of civil war, where there is a danger of conflict breaking out again. The analysis is motivated by the empirical regularity with which peace agreements break down in the context of civil war, as for example in Angola, Sierra Leone and many of th…
Aid Conditionality and Military Expenditure Reduction in Developing Countries: Models of Asymmetric Information
The paper analyses problems of implementing non-economic conditionality, such as military expenditure reduction, in the granting of foreign aid given the presence of asymmetric information. We present two conceptually separate principal-agent models, to capture the stylised facts of multilateral and bilateral aid negotiations respectively. The first model is an application of the problem of adverse selection when there is more than one type of pr…
Debt Relief and Civil War
Reducing or writing off the debts of the 41 heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs) can potentially reduce social conflict by releasing resources from debt-service to enable governments to make fiscal transfers that lower the grievances of rebels (when conflict is partly rooted in grievances over past allocations of public spending and taxation). To explore these issues, this article presents a model of a civil war between a government and rebels…
How Developing Countries Trade: The Institutional Constraints
Journal Article How Developing Countries Trade: The Institutional Constraints Get access How Developing Countries Trade: The Institutional Constraints. By Page(Sheila). (London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. xv + 309. £47.50 hardback, £15.99 paperback. ISBN 0 415 11777 1, 0 415 11778 X.) S. Mansoob Murshed S. Mansoob Murshed University of Bradford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, V…
Give War A Chance’: All-Out War as a Means of Ending Conflict in the Cases of Sri Lanka and Colombia
This article investigates the military approach as a means of solving protracted civil conflicts, in particular focusing on the cases of Sri Lanka and Colombia in comparison. The approach adopted is to study the emergence of these military options within the context of each country's history and to assess whether the call for war was merely a consequence of the international ‘war on terror’, or driven by internal elements. The article explores th…
Not loving thy neighbour as thyself: Trade, democracy and military expenditure explanations underlying India-Pakistan rivalry
This article analyses whether greater international trade, democracy and reduced military spending lower hostility between India and Pakistan. Conflict between the two nations can be best understood in a multivariate framework where variables such as economic performance, multilateral trade with the rest of the world, bilateral trade, military expenditure, democracy scores and population are simultaneously taken into account. The empirical invest…
Dynamics of Uneven Development
Journal Article Dynamics of Uneven Development Get access Dynamics of Uneven Development. By MAINWARING (LYNN). (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1990. Pp. ix + 245. £39-95 hardback. ISBN 1 85278319 2.) S. M. Murshed S. M. Murshed University of Surrey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 412, 1 May 1992, Pages 663–665, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234319 Published: 01 May 1992
External arms embargoes and their implications for government expenditure, democracy and internal conflict
We examine how arms imports reductions due to external arms embargoes affect military expenditure, democratic quality and internal conflict in a sample of 48 countries from 1990 to 2017. We construct a theoretical model of arms restrictions influencing probabilities of peaceful and conflictual states via actions and efforts undertaken by the government and rebels to promote peace. We postulate that the effect of external arms embargoes on interna…
Beyond remain vs. leave: Understand changing voter perceptions and attitudes towards Populism—evidence from Scotland and the West Midlands
This article explores the link between populism and governance arrangements. Adopting a comparative approach between the West Midlands and Scotland, it utilises novel primary qualitative data alongside official results and demographic statistics. Paying particular attention to the perspectives of remain-voters in “left behind” areas and how they perceive their Leave-voting counterparts, the article finds that despite divergent voting patterns bot…
The Clash of Civilizations and the Interaction between Fear and Hatred
This paper models conflictive interaction between a West European state and a domestic dissident immigrant Muslim minority group in terms of fear and hatred. The genesis and production of both phenomena are modelled. Identity is crucial and provides the micro-foundations of dissident Muslim behaviour by solving the collective action problem; however, complex multiple identities are possible. Hatred of the West arises both because of the economic …
Introduction - Insecurity and Development: Regional Issues and Policies for an Interdependent World
Growth, Distribution, and Uneven Development
Journal Article Growth, Distribution, and Uneven Development Get access Growth, Distribution, and Uneven Development. By DUTT (AMITAVA KRISHNA). (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 262. £32.50 hardback, US $49.50 hardhack. ISBN 0 521 38177 0.) S. M. Murshed S. M. Murshed University of Surrey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 101, Issue 408, 1 Sept…
Dynamics of Uneven Development
Journal Article Dynamics of Uneven Development Get access Dynamics of Uneven Development. By MAINWARING (LYNN). (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1990. Pp. ix + 245. £39-95 hardback. ISBN 1 85278319 2.) S. M. Murshed S. M. Murshed University of Surrey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 412, 1 May 1992, Pages 663–665, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234319 Published: 01 May 1992
Economic Aspects of North-South Interaction: Analytical Macroeconomic Issues
The terms of trade under various aggregate supply regimes in the north protectionism the debt crisis north, south and east the environment
The North-South Economic Interaction and the Environment
International dimensions of environmental issues: A North‐South perspective
Aid Conditionality and Military Expenditure Reduction in Developing Countries: Models of Asymmetric Information
The paper analyses problems of implementing non-economic conditionality, such as military expenditure reduction, in the granting of foreign aid given the presence of asymmetric information. We present two conceptually separate principal-agent models, to capture the stylised facts of multilateral and bilateral aid negotiations respectively. The first model is an application of the problem of adverse selection when there is more than one type of pr…
How Developing Countries Trade: The Institutional Constraints
Journal Article How Developing Countries Trade: The Institutional Constraints Get access How Developing Countries Trade: The Institutional Constraints. By Page(Sheila). (London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. xv + 309. £47.50 hardback, £15.99 paperback. ISBN 0 415 11777 1, 0 415 11778 X.) S. Mansoob Murshed S. Mansoob Murshed University of Bradford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, V…
An Appraisal of the Adarsha Gram Project in Bangladesh
Patterns of East Asian Trade and Intra-Industry Trade in Manufactures
This article examines trade patterns for seven East Asian economies: Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea and Hong Kong, with partners in other Asian countries and the West. East Asia as a dynamically growing region has gained manufacturing competitiveness as it converges towards income levels in the West. The article focuses mainly, but not exclusively, on intra-industrytrade (IIT). Measures of IIT provide clues…
Credibility and Reputation in Peacemaking
This article analyses credibility and reputation in the context of peace negotiations. The model is applicable to the credibility of peace agreements in post-conflict situations in the immediate aftermath of civil war, where there is a danger of conflict breaking out again. The analysis is motivated by the empirical regularity with which peace agreements break down in the context of civil war, as for example in Angola, Sierra Leone and many of th…
Conflict, Civil War and Underdevelopment: An Introduction
Conflict has been a feature of human society since time immemorial. Disputes that arise may be organized around social class, ethnicity, religion, region, or some combination of these factors. The struggle can be over economic opportunities, as well as political and civil rights, among other contestable factors. In peaceful societies, conflict is channelled into nonviolent means and institutions for both its expression and resolution. Civil war i…
Debt Relief and Civil War
Reducing or writing off the debts of the 41 heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs) can potentially reduce social conflict by releasing resources from debt-service to enable governments to make fiscal transfers that lower the grievances of rebels (when conflict is partly rooted in grievances over past allocations of public spending and taxation). To explore these issues, this article presents a model of a civil war between a government and rebels…
Short-Run Models of Contrasting Natural Resource Endowments
This chapter examines the links between natural resources, economic growth, and economic policy using a short-run theoretical macroeconomic model of a small open economy endowed with a natural resource exporting sector. It considers the short-run effects of resource booms, devaluation, and a consumption tax on the non-traded good. Typologies are developed, distinguishing between the East Asian (diffuse resource-rich) and Latin American (point-sou…
Postconflict Development: Meeting New Challenges
With the proliferation of civil wars since the end of the Cold War, many developing countries now exist in a "postconflict" environment, posing enormous development challenges for the societies affected, as well as for international actors. Postconflict Development addresses these challenges in a range of vital sectors—security, justice, economic policy, education, the media, agriculture, health, and the environment in countries around the globe.…
Spatial–Horizontal Inequality and the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal
The Maoist insurgency in Nepal is one of the highest intensity internal conflicts in recent times. Investigation into the causes of the conflict would suggest that grievance rather than greed is the main motivating force. The concept of horizontal or intergroup inequality, with both an ethnic and caste dimension, is highly relevant in explaining the Nepalese civil war. There is also a spatial aspect to the conflict, which is most intense in the m…
Reconstructing and Reforming the Financial System in Conflict and ‘Post-Conflict’ Economies
Reconstructing the financial system in countries affected by violent conflict is crucial to successful and broad-based recovery. Particularly important tasks include: currency reform, rebuilding (or creating) central banks, revitalising the banking sector, and strengthening prudential supervision and regulation. Encouragement of private capital into the banking sector must be balanced by protection of the public interest, a task made more difficu…
Introduction - Insecurity and Development: Regional Issues and Policies for an Interdependent World
Socio-Economic Determinants of Everyday Violence in Indonesia: An Empirical Investigation of Javanese Districts, 1994-2003
Social violence in Indonesia centres around vigilantism/popular justice and group brawls. This kind of violence occurs frequently and, hence, can be described as `routine'. While episodic violence associated with intercommunal and secessionist strife gets most attention, the everyday type does not produce headlines, escaping academic scrutiny. As a result, there is no social policy to reduce everyday violence other than police responses. This stu…
Human Security from the Standpoint of an Economist
Escape from Empire: The Developing World's Journey through Heaven and Hell by Alice H. Amsden
Greed and Grievance
Explaining Civil War: A Rational Choice Approach
Not loving thy neighbour as thyself: Trade, democracy and military expenditure explanations underlying India-Pakistan rivalry
This article analyses whether greater international trade, democracy and reduced military spending lower hostility between India and Pakistan. Conflict between the two nations can be best understood in a multivariate framework where variables such as economic performance, multilateral trade with the rest of the world, bilateral trade, military expenditure, democracy scores and population are simultaneously taken into account. The empirical invest…
Population Pressure, Horizontal Inequality and Political Violence: A Disaggregated Study of Indonesian Provinces, 1990–2003
All parts of a country are rarely equally affected by political violence. Yet statistical studies largely fail to address sub-national conflict dynamics. We address this gap studying variations in 'routine' and 'episodic' violence between Indonesian provinces from 1990 to 2003. Within a grievance framework, the article focuses on the violence potential of resource scarcity and population pressure, as well as inter-group dynamics related to polari…
The Clash of Civilizations and the Interaction between Fear and Hatred
This paper models conflictive interaction between a West European state and a domestic dissident immigrant Muslim minority group in terms of fear and hatred. The genesis and production of both phenomena are modelled. Identity is crucial and provides the micro-foundations of dissident Muslim behaviour by solving the collective action problem; however, complex multiple identities are possible. Hatred of the West arises both because of the economic …
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