Horizontal inequalities and conflict - Frances Stewart
Channel: GSDRC
Date: 2015-04-24

This video accompanies the GSDRC Professional Development Reading pack on Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict, available at: http://www.gsdrc.org/professional-dev/horizontal-inequalities/

Civil wars are one of the main sources of state fragility, low incomes and poor human development. Hence, policies to prevent conflict must be a high priority for those concerned with promoting development in poor countries. There is increasing evidence that the presence of horizontal inequalities (HIs), or inequalities among groups, raises the risk of conflict, and this is the central issue covered in these readings.

Frances Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Development Economics, University of Oxford. She has been director of Oxford’s Department of International Development and Chair of the United Nation’s Committee on Development Policy. She received the Mahbub ul Haq award from the UNDP for lifetime services to Human Development and the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought, by the Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE) at Tufts University.  She is author of Technology and Underdevelopment (Macmillan 1976) and co-author of UNICEF’s influential study Adjustment with a Human Face (OUP 1987). She is also co-editor of War and Underdevelopment (OUP 2001) and editor of Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict (Palgrave, 2008).