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

✍ Scribed by E. Wayne Nafziger, Juha Auvinen (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 253
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
A Humanitarian Emergency: War, Genocide, and Displacement....Pages 1-29
Poverty, Stagnation, Unemployment, and Inflation....Pages 30-50
Ethnicity, Political Economy, and Conflict....Pages 51-89
Inequality, Exclusivity, and Relative Deprivation....Pages 90-100
Stagnation, Inequality, Adjustment, and Élite Interests....Pages 101-113
Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Military Centrality....Pages 114-131
The Failure of Agriculture: Food Entitlements, élite Violence, and Famines....Pages 132-143
The Conflict over Land and Natural Resources....Pages 144-156
Preventing Humanitarian Emergencies: Policy Implications....Pages 157-198
Back Matter....Pages 199-244

✦ Subjects

Political Economy; Development Economics; International Economics

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