War and Underdevelopment: Volume 1: The Economic and Social Consequences of Conflict

ISBN-13: 9780199241873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 280 str.

Valpy FitzGerald; Frances Stewart

Opis

Wars - especially civil wars - are among the most serious causes of human suffering and underdevelopment. Yet economic analysis of developing countries at war is relatively rare. These volumes aim to reverse this neglect, tracing the economic and social consequences of conflict both theoretically and through empirical investigations, including seven country case studies. A major objective is to identify policies which may reduce the heavy human and economic costs. Volume one provides a general framework for the analysis, examines the political economy of countries at war, and provides an empirical overview of the costs of war for the poor countries worst affected by conflict. The approach is multidisciplinary: political and sociological analysis is needed in order to understand motivations and behaviour during conflict; while economic analysis is necessary to evaluate how poor people are affected. The analysis includes an investigation of how the international system, including food aid, affects the war economies, and identifies international as well as domestic policies which may reduce the human and economic costs of conflict.

Recenzje

This two-volume study verifies long-held intuitions and observations that war entails costs and benefits that are distributed unevenly ... this study should serve as a good reference and as an invitation to scholars to study war and development more thoroughly.

O autorze

Frances Stewart is Director, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, and Professor of Development Economics and Fellow of Somerville College, University of Oxford Valpy Fitzgerald is Director, Finance Trade and Policy Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford