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Author Nafziger, E. Wayne

Title Economic development, inequality, and war : humanitarian emergencies in developing countries / E. Wayne Nafziger and Juha Auvinen
Published Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

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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
Subject War -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Disasters -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Poverty -- Political aspects -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Social conflict -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Profiteering -- Developing countries -- Case studies
War -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries -- Econometric models
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Urban & Regional.
Disasters -- Economic aspects
Economic history
Poverty -- Political aspects
Profiteering
Social conflict -- Economic aspects
War -- Economic aspects
Ontwikkelingseconomie.
Oorlog.
Rampen.
Sociale conflicten.
Economische aspecten.
SUBJECT Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- 21st century -- Case studies
Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- 21st century -- Econometric models
Subject Developing countries
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Auvinen, Juha
LC no. 2003050915
ISBN 9781403943767
1403943761