Poverty and Conflict: Causal Factors and Resolutions

Poverty, Inequality and Conflict

While there is a general view that poverty and inequality can lead to conflict and are therefore in this sense security issues, the precise nature of the links is less well appreciated. Focusing on conflicts within states, this paper draws out the links based on the recent economics literature, and discusses their implications for policy. It is argued that while inequality is a natural concomit...

Violent Conflict, Poverty and Chronic Poverty

Agonistic and Affiliative Signals: Resolutions of Conflict

Most competitive interactions among animals take the form of vocal, visual, or gestural displays: loud calls, threatening postures, or other behaviors that allow rivals to assess each other without escalating the displays into potentially costly attacks. Regardless of the species involved, displays haveone essential property: they involve signals of competitive ability that are difficult, if no...

proficiency level and factors fostering reticence in efl learners

according to cheng (1999), in recent esl/efl literature, asian (especially east asian) learners of english as a foreign/second language have been arguably reported as reticent and passive learners. the most common allegations are that these students are reluctant to participate in classroom discourse; they are unwilling to give responses; they do not ask questions; and they are passive and over...

Natural Resources, Social Conflict and Poverty Trap

The paper analyses a model where the fight for the appropriation of rents from natural resources between two groups leads to multiple equilibria. The possibility to be trapped into the low-income equilibrium, characterized by strong social conflict (civil war) and stagnation of income, increases with the weakness of political institutions, the population growth rate, the amount of rents from na...