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

✍ Scribed by E. Wayne Nafziger, Juha Auvinen

• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 7
List of Figures......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Map of Countries experiencing humanitarian emergencies in the 1990s......Page 12
1 A Humanitarian Emergency: War, Genocide, and Displacement......Page 13
2 Poverty, Stagnation, Unemployment, and In.ation......Page 42
3 Ethnicity, Political Economy, and Con.ict......Page 63
4 Inequality, Exclusivity, and Relative Deprivation......Page 102
5 Stagnation, Inequality, Adjustment, and Élite Interests......Page 113
6 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Military Centrality......Page 126
7 The Failure of Agriculture: Food Entitlements, Élite Violence, and Famines......Page 144
8 The Conflict over Land and Natural Resources......Page 156
9 Preventing Humanitarian Emergencies: Policy Implications......Page 169
Notes......Page 211
Bibliography......Page 221
Index......Page 243