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Horizontal inequalities and post-conflict development / edited by Arnim Langer, Frances Stewart and Rajesh Venugopal.

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Horizontal inequalities and post-conflict development / edited by Arnim Langer, Frances Stewart and Rajesh Venugopal.
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Langer, Arnim
  • Stewart, Frances
  • Venugopal, Rajesh.
Description
xix, 346 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
  • This book evaluates the extent to which post-conflict reconstruction has addressed problems of horizontal inequalities through country case studies on Burundi, Rwanda, Nepal, Peru, Guatemala, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Afghanistan, and four thematic studies on macro-economic policies, privatisation, PRSP's, and employment generation.
  • This volume evaluates the extent to which post-conflict reconstruction has addressed problems of horizontal inequalities by looking at the experiences of seven diverse post-conflict countries: Burundi, Rwanda, Nepal, Peru, Guatemala, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Afghanistan. It includes four cross-cutting thematic studies on macro-economic policies, privatisation, PRSP's, and employment generation. Revealing important gaps in the redressal of what are often deeply entrenched forms of group-based discrimination, deprivation and marginalisation, it points to distinct implications for policy and further research. The authors find that even in cases where HI's have been reduced, this has happened in a somewhat haphazard and inconsistent manner, with patchy implementation, gaps in coverage, and doubts as to the sustainability of this improvement. In addition, there is a clear pattern of evidence which suggests that improvements in some metrics of HI's are being offset and rendered ineffective by new forms of group inequalities, particularly those linked to neo-liberal reforms and global economic integration.
Series Statement
Conflict, inequality and ethnicity
Subject
  • Postwar reconstruction > Social aspects
  • Postwar reconstruction > Economic aspects
  • Social conflict
  • Postwar reconstruction > Case studies
  • Distributive justice > Case studies
  • Ethnic relations > Case studies
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Genre/Form
Case studies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-321) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Horizontal Inequalities and Post-Conflict Development: Laying the Foundations for Durable Peace / Rajesh Venugopal -- 2.Macro-Economic Policies in Post-Conflict Countries / Frances Stewart -- 3.Employment Policies and Horizontal Inequalities in Post-Conflict Situations / Frances Stewart -- 4.Correcting Horizontal Inequality as a Development Priority: Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers in Haiti, Liberia and Nepal / Sakiko Fukuda-Parr -- 5.Privatization, Private-Sector Development and Horizontal Inequalities in Post-Conflict Countries / Rajesh Venugopal -- 6.The Bosnian Paradox: On the Causes of Post-War Inequality and Barriers to Its Recognition and Reduction / Susan L. Woodward -- 7.Explaining a Contradictory Record: The Case of Guatemala / Diego Sanchez-Ancochea -- 8.Post-Conflict Economic Policy and Group Inequalities in Peru / Jose Carlos Orihuela -- 9.Inequality and Post-Conflict Fiscal Policies in Burundi / Janvier D. Nkurunziza --
ISBN
  • 9780230251847 (hbk)
  • 0230251846
OCLC
  • 768834215
  • SCSB-12373414
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library