economic growth and social conflicts

This paper asks: how can economic development in Global South nations can be better managed, so as to reduce the potential for violent ethnic conflict? To answer this we must pose a prior question: why is economic development so often accompanied by violent ethnic conflict? Viewing economic development and ethnic conflict as linked problems requires reassessment of two widely accepted schools of thought about the relationship between these phenomena. One school, prevalent in the 1950s …

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