Too Poor for Peace?: Global Poverty, Conflict, and Security in the 21st Century

by Lael Brainard

Book Overview

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Extreme poverty exhausts institutions, depletes resources, weakens leadership, and ultimately contributes to rising insecurity and conflict. Just as poverty begets insecurity, however, the reverse is also true. As the destabilizing effects of conflict settle in, civil institutions are undermined and poverty proliferates. Breaking this nexus between poverty and conflict is one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century. The authors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815713754
• ISBN13: 9780815713753
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.9"