Description |
1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) : illustrations, map |
Contents |
A Humanitarian Emergency: War, Genocide, and Displacement -- Poverty, Stagnation, Unemployment, and Inflation -- Ethnicity, Political Economy, and Conflict -- Inequality, Exclusivity, and Relative Deprivation -- Stagnation, Inequality, Adjustment, and Elite Interests -- Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Military Centrality -- The Failure of Agriculture: Food Entitlements, Elite Violence, and Famines -- The Conflict over Land and Natural Resources -- Preventing Humanitarian Emergencies: Policy Implications |
Summary |
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 humanitarian emergencies, a human-made crisis in which numerous people die from war and state violence. 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's evidence indicates that both greed and grievance drive contemporary civil wars. Finally, the authors also identify policies for preventing humanitarian emergencies |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-230) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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War -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries -- Case studies
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Disasters -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries -- Case studies
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Poverty -- Political aspects -- Developing countries -- Case studies
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Social conflict -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries -- Case studies
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Profiteering -- Developing countries -- Case studies
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War -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries -- Econometric models
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Urban & Regional.
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Disasters -- Economic aspects
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Economic history
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Poverty -- Political aspects
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Profiteering
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Social conflict -- Economic aspects
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War -- Economic aspects
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Ontwikkelingseconomie.
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Oorlog.
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Rampen.
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Sociale conflicten.
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Economische aspecten.
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Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- 21st century -- Case studies
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Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- 21st century -- Econometric models
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Subject |
Developing countries
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Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Auvinen, Juha
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LC no. |
2003050915 |
ISBN |
9781403943767 |
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1403943761 |
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