Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 31 No. 99 Breaking the Conflict Trap - Civil War/Dev Policy (Collier et al)

Abstract of Review

Title:	Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy by Paul Collier et al
Reviewer:	Joseph Hanlon
Location:	Vol.31 No.99 (March 2004), pp181-182

Like much research carried out inside the World Bank regression analysis bubble, this is totally ahistoric and ignores some of the most important research in the field. But one curious outcome of this lack of context is that, seemingly without noticing, the report challenges some of the World Bank's basic neo-liberal tenets and effectively says that what the international financial institutions have done in post-war countries in Africa has been wrong and encouraged a return to violence. Thus the report is both challenging and intensely annoying.

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