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Inequality, Exclusivity, and Relative Deprivation

In: Economic Development, Inequality and War

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  • E. Wayne Nafziger

    (Kansas State University)

  • Juha Auvinen

    (University of Helsinki)

Abstract

Case studies in Chapter 3 showed that both poor economic performance and large inequalities contribute to the antagonisms that fuel humanitarian emergencies. This chapter discusses more explicitly how large income concentrations increase grievances that exacerbate the risk of humanitarian emergencies. Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti’s (1996, pp. 1203–38) cross-sectional study of 71 developing countries, 1960–85, finds that income inequality, by fuelling social discontent, increases socio-political instability, as measured by deaths in domestic disturbances and assassinations (per million population) and coups (both successful and unsuccessful). Severe social tensions leading to humanitarian emergencies may also arise under conditions of positive (even rapid) growth and expanding resource availability.

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  • E. Wayne Nafziger & Juha Auvinen, 2003. "Inequality, Exclusivity, and Relative Deprivation," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Economic Development, Inequality and War, chapter 4, pages 90-100, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-4376-7_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403943767_4
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