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Overview

Indra de Soysa is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their research work spans multiple disciplines, primarily within social sciences, economics, health professions, and related subfields.

The scientist has contributed extensively to research areas including:

  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Natural Resources and Economic Development
  • International Development and Aid
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality

Indra de Soysa's main fields of study incorporate:

  • Social Sciences
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Health Professions

The subfields of their work include:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • General Health Professions
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Development

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Indra de Soysa include:

  • "Does Empowering Women in Politics Boost Human Development? An Empirical Analysis, 1960-2018" (2021), Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
  • "Health-system equity, egalitarian democracy and COVID-19 outcomes: An empirical analysis" (2021), Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • "Free market capitalism and societal inequities: Assessing the effects of economic freedom on income inequality and the equity of access to opportunity, 1990-2017" (2021), International Political Science Review
  • "Oil price volatility and political unrest: Prudence and protest in producer and consumer societies, 1980-2013" (2020), Energy Policy
  • "Economic freedom vs. egalitarianism: An empirical test of weak & strong sustainability, 1970-2017" (2022), Kyklos

The scientist has also contributed to book publications within Working Paper Series, including:

  • "Do bigger health budgets cushion pandemics? An empirical test of COVID-19 deaths across the world" (2020)
  • "Healthcare equity and COVID-19: Assessing the relative effectiveness of egalitarian governance and healthcare system capacity on the COVID-19 pandemic" (2020)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Indra de Soysa are:

  • Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati
  • Arusha Cooray
  • Tim Krieger
  • Daniel Meierrieks
  • Norunn Hornset

Among their common publication venues are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Peace Research
  • Forum for Development Studies
  • Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
  • International Political Science Review

Best Publications

  • Paradise Is a Bazaar? Greed, Creed, and Governance in Civil War, 1989-99*

    Indra De Soysa

  • Ecoviolence: Shrinking Pie, or Honey Pot?

    Indra de Soysa

  • Trade Openness, Foreign Direct Investment and Child Labor

    Eric Neumayer;Indra de Soysa

  • Resource Wealth and the Risk of Civil War Onset: Results from a New Dataset of Natural Resource Rents, 1970–1999

    Indra De Soysa;Eric Neumayer

  • Corruption, the resource curse and genuine saving

    Simon Dietz;Eric Neumayer;Indra De Soysa

  • Globalization and the Right to Free Association and Collective Bargaining: An Empirical Analysis

    Eric Neumayer;Indra de Soysa

  • Coercion, Co-optation , or Co-operation? : State Capacity and the Risk of Civil War, 1961 - 2004

    Hanne Fjelde;Indra de Soysa

  • Do Foreign Investors Punish Democracy? Theory and Empirics, 1984–2001

    Jo Jakobsen;Indra de Soysa

  • To Cultivate Peace: Agriculture in a World of Conflict

    Margareta Sollenberg;Indra de Soysa;Nils Petter Gleditsch;Michael Gibson

  • Globalisation, Women's Economic Rights and Forced Labour

    Eric Neumayer;Indra de Soysa

  • A new method for analysing socio-ecological patterns of vulnerability

    Marcel Kok;Matthias Lüdeke;Paul Lucas;Till Sterzel

  • Testing Power-Transition Theory Using Alternative Measures of National Capabilities

    Indra de Soysa;John R. Oneal;Yong-Hee Park

  • Globalization and the empowerment of women: an analysis of spatial dependence via trade and foreign direct investment

    Eric Neumayer;Indra De Soysa

  • Islam's Bloody Innards? Religion and Political Terror, 1980–2000

    Indra De Soysa;Ragnhild Nordås

  • Is the hidden hand an iron fist? Capitalism and civil peace, 1970-2005

    Indra de Soysa;Hanne Fjelde

  • Informal institutions : how social norms help or hinder development

    Johannes Jütting;Denis Drechsler;Sebastian Bartsch;Indra De Soysa

  • False Prophet, or Genuine Savior? Assessing the Effects of Economic Openness on Sustainable Development, 1980–99

    Indra de Soysa;Eric Neumayer

  • Do pro-market economic reforms drive human rights violations? An empirical assessment, 1981–2006

    Indra de Soysa;Krishna Chaitanya Vadlammanati

  • The natural resource curse and the spread of HIV/AIDS, 1990–2008

    Indra de Soysa;Theodora-Ismene Gizelis

  • Does Being Bound Together Suffocate, or Liberate? The Effects of Economic, Social, and Political Globalization on Human Rights, 1981–2005

    Indra de Soysa;Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

  • But Power and Wealth are Satisfying: A Reply to Lemke and Reed

    John R. Oneal;Indra De Soysa;Yong-Hee Park

  • A Fate Worse Than Debt? International Financial Institutions and Human Rights, 1981—2003

    Silja Eriksen;Indra de Soysa

  • Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death! State Repression, Ethnic Grievance and Civil War, 1981–2004

    Tor G. Jakobsen;Indra De Soysa

  • Does Empowering Women in Politics Boost Human Development? An Empirical Analysis, 1960–2018

    Norunn Hornset;Indra de Soysa

  • Health-system equity, egalitarian democracy and COVID-19 outcomes: An empirical analysis.

    Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati;Arusha Cooray;Indra de Soysa

  • Do Globalization and Free Markets Drive Obesity among Children and Youth? An Empirical Analysis, 1990–2013

    Indra de Soysa;Ann Kristin de Soysa

  • Why do poor countries suffer costly conflict? Unpacking per capita income and the onset of civil war:

    Tor Georg Jakobsen;Indra De Soysa;Jo Jakobsen

  • Disarming fears of diversity : ethnic heterogeneity and state militarization, 1988-2002

    Indra de Soysa;Eric Neumayer

  • Globalization and Political Violence, 1970–2008

    Ranveig Drolsum Flaten;Indra de Soysa

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Neumayer
Eric Neumayer London School of Economics and Political Science
John R. Oneal
John R. Oneal University of Alabama
Simon Dietz
Simon Dietz London School of Economics and Political Science
Nils Petter Gleditsch
Nils Petter Gleditsch Peace Research Institute
Andreas Wimmer
Andreas Wimmer Columbia University

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