Economic development, inequality, and war : humanitarian emergencies in developing countries / E. Wayne Nafziger and Juha Auvinen.

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

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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.

Palgrave Economics & Finance collection 2004.

Print version: Nafziger, E. Wayne. Economic development, inequality, and war. Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

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April 19, 2018

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-230) and index.