Horizontal Inequalities and Post-Conflict Development

by Langer, Arnim; Stewart, Frances; Venugopal, Rajesh

• ISBN13: 9780230251847
• ISBN10: 0230251846
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780230348622
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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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.

Author Biography

Arnim Langer is Lecturer in International Relations are Director of the Centre for Research on Peace and Development at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Frances Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Development Economics and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity at the University of Oxford UK. Rajesh Venugopal is Lecturer in Development studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Table of Contents

Horizontal Inequalities and Post-Conflict Development: Laying the Foundations for Durable Peace; A.Langer, F.Stewart& R.Venugopal
Macroeconomic Policies in Post-Conflict Countries; A.Langer &F.Stewart
Employment Policies and Horizontal Inequalities in Post-Conflict Situations; F.Stewart
Correcting Horizontal Inequality as a Development Priority: Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) in Haiti, Liberia and Nepal; S.Fukuda-Parr
Privatization, Private Sector Development and Horizontal Inequalities in Post-Conflict Countries; R.Venugopal
The Bosnian Paradox: On the Causes of Post-War Inequality and Barriers to its Recognition and Reduction; S.L.Woodward
Explaining a Contradictory Record: The Case of Guatemala; C.Caumartin& D.Sanchez-Ancochea
Post-Conflict Economic Policy and Group Inequalities in Peru; J.C.Orihuela
Inequality and Post-Conflict Fiscal Policies in Burundi; J.D.Nkurunziza
Structural Violence and Conflict: Vertical and Horizontal Inequality in Post-Genocide Rwanda; S.Silva Leander
A Dangerous Peace? Drugs, Post-Conflict State Building and Horizontal Inequalities in Afghanistan; J.Goodhand, C.Dennys & D.Mansfield
Nepal: First Steps towards Redressing His?; G.K.Brown