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The Relationship between Poverty, Conflict and Development

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Author	Ikejiaku, Brian-Vincent
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Contrary to the expectations and dreams nourished by many people that the end of the 'Trio-Crisis Initiators' in Africa: Colonialism (1960s) Cold War (1998) and Apartheid (1994), will bring stability and succour to the continent, however, the new era could as well be perceived as a turbulent period. This paper establishes the relationship between poverty, conflict and development (PCD) in analysing instability in the African continent. In its analysis, the paper examines several variable factors that can help in the explanations of the relationship between PCD in Africa. These variable factors includes: economic, political, population, climate and environment, ethnic composition, militarization, poor growth and political corruption. None of these varying factors can unilaterally explain the relationship between poverty, conflict and development as issues behind Africa's instability. However, the paper argues that political corruption stands out as the most persuasive, compelling and primary explanation for the (causal) relationship(s) between PCD, though, it is not an exclusive one. While, the paper recognises that there are both exogenous and endogenous trends that influence political corruption, the paper adopts the endogenous (domestic political corruption) perspective, because political governance is now more controlled at home. The paper employs the human needs theory for analysis.
ISSN	19139063
e-ISSN	19139071
DOI	10.5539/jsd.v2n1p15
Journal	Journal of Sustainable Development
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	2
Language	English
Publisher	Canadian Center of Science and Education
Publisher Date	2009-02-18
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Development Studies Relationship Between Poverty Conflict and Development
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Geography, Planning and Development Development Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Environmental Science

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