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

Wars, especially civil wars, are known to be one of the most potent 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 in poor countries. A major objective is to identify policies which may reduce the heavy human and economic costs. Volume One provides a general framework for understanding the economic
interactions. It also provides an empirical overview of the costs of war for the worst affected countries in the 1970s and 1980s. Volume Two presents seven country case studies.

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Survival The major contribution of War and Underdevelopment lies in the light that it sheds on the workings of economies during war ... an intellectually challenging read ... There is clearly much to be digested not just by fellow academics but, above all, by development agencies and foreign ministries in donor countries.

Survival Two excellent volumes ... Their strength derives, in the first instance, from the breadth and quality of the case material.

Journal of Development Studies The two volumes are ... most valuable, as much in what they cover as in the questions they provoke. The study opens an important field of future work and policy concern, closely uplated to the real issues confronting some very poor countries.

Choice 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.

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1. Introduction: Assessing the Economic Costs of War; 2. Paying for the War: Economic Policy in Poor Countries; 3. The Political Economy of War; 4. Internal Wars: An Empirical Overview of the Economic and Social Consequences; 5. Overview of Case Studies; 6. The Treatment of Children during Conflict; 7. Food Aid during Civil War: Conflicting Conclusions Derived from Alternative Approaches; 8. Vulnerable Economies and the International Political Economy of Conflict; 9. The Costs of War in Poor Countries: Conclusions and Policy Recommendations

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