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Economic Development, Inequality and War: Humanitarian Emergencies in Developing Countries

By E. Wayne Nafziger , Juha Auvinen

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
1403917973, 9781403917973, 9781403943767
LCC
HC59.72.D44 N34 2003
Open Library ID
OL22546918M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
773 kB (791905 bytes)
Pages
256\256
Topic
Economy
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Economic Development, Inequality and War shows how economic decline, income inequality, pervasive rent seeking by ruling elites, political authoritarianism, military centrality and competition for mineral exports contribute to war and humanitarian emergencies. Economic regress and political decay bring about relative deprivation, perception by social groups of injustice arising from a growing discrepancy between what they expect and get. Nafziger and Auvinen indicate that both economic greed and social grievances drive contemporary civil wars. Finally, the authors also identify policies for preventing humanitarian emergencies.

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