Conflicts, Demography and the Economic Volatility in Developing Countries

By Robert Messerle

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Economics - Economic Cycle and Growth, grade: 1,0, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakult t), language: English, abstract: "In cities in six West African countries I saw similar young men everywhere--hordes of them. They were like loose molecules in a very unstable social fluid, a fluid that was clearly on the verge of igniting." (Kaplan, 1994) With his article "The Coming Anarchy" Kaplan ignited a discussion over the threat posed by youth cohorts to the civilized world. More than 15 years later there is still no clear evidence whether large populations of young men are a main factor in determining conflict risk or not. This paper now tries to connect the topic of demographically induced violence with another contemporary topic of development economics: growth volatility.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3656025126
• ISBN13: 9783656025122
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"