Needs Versus Expediency: Poverty Reduction and Social Development inPost-Conflict Countries

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Main author: Addison, Tony
Other authors: Gisselquist, Rachel M.
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel
Singh, Saurabh
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description This chapter explores the issues around the need to strengthen and sustain peace in post-conflict societies. These issues include the amount of focus to be given to absolute poverty reduction versus broader social inclusion, including the reduction of inequality. The chapter sets out a framework that can help country-level policy and action, then moves on to address specific interventions: health, education, livelihoods, and social protection, reviewing the (often limited) evidence available, and drawing out some tentative recommendations for sequencing. This provides the basis for a discussion of the politics of post-conflict inclusion, which delves deeper into the issues around crafting a politics of recovery that also embraces the needs of the poor. A final section concludes that a ‘first best’ outcome for poverty and human development is unlikely, as the political economy of recovery will impose powerful constraints.
author_additional Langer, Arnim
author_additionalStr Langer, Arnim
format Book Chapters
author Addison, Tony
author_facet Addison, Tony
Gisselquist, Rachel M.
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel
Singh, Saurabh
authorStr Addison, Tony
author_letter Addison, Tony
author2 Gisselquist, Rachel M.
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel
Singh, Saurabh
author2Str Gisselquist, Rachel M.
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel
Singh, Saurabh
title Needs Versus Expediency: Poverty Reduction and Social Development inPost-Conflict Countries
publisher Oxford University Press
publishDate 2016
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/37630/

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