This article considers the World Bank's World Development Report 2011 on Conflict, Security and Development. It offers critical analysis of some of the WDR's underlying premises through five 'vignettes' focusing respectively on the report's bibliography, the work of Charles Tilly, the way that gangs
World Bank's world development report
β Scribed by Gilles de Wildt; David Sogge; Arnold Peters; Jaap Kemkes; Guite Hansma; Wilbert Bannenberg; JamesP. Grant; Anthony Costello; David Woodward; Peter Poore
- Book ID
- 119067214
- Publisher
- The Lancet
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 350 KB
- Volume
- 342
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0140-6736
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