Inequality, Exclusivity, and Relative Deprivation

E. Wayne Nafziger and Juha Auvinen
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E. Wayne Nafziger: Kansas State University
Juha Auvinen: University of Helsinki

Chapter 4 in Economic Development, Inequality and War, 2003, pp 90-100 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Income Inequality; Gini Coefficient; Relative Deprivation; Political Violence; African National Congress (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403943767_4

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