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War and Poverty
IDS WORKING PAPER
Volume 2012 No 391

War and Poverty

Patricia Justino April 2012

Conflict, Violence and Development Research Cluster

The Conflict, Violence and Development research cluster is part of the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction team at the Institute of Development Studies. The cluster’s main focus is to develop new insights into how people in contexts of conflict and violence live and interact, and what institutions best support them. We use our research findings to inform, identify and develop policies and practices that will strengthen people’s efforts to secure their own lives and livelihoods. Email: conflict@ids.ac.uk Web: www.ids.ac.uk/go/research-teams/vulnerability-and-poverty-reduction-team/researchthemes/conflict CVD WP009

The Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction (VPR) Team aims to construct dynamic and multidimensional perspectives on vulnerability and poverty in order to transform thinking, policy and practice. The VPR team produces working papers on social protection; conflict, violence and development; and poverty and inequality. Follow this link to view a full list of publications: www.ids.ac.uk/go/research-teams/vulnerability-and-poverty-reduction-team

War and Poverty Patricia Justino IDS Working Paper 391 First published by MICROCON as Research Working Paper 32, 2010 Second edition reprinted as HiCN Working Paper 81, 2010 Third edition reprinted as IDS Working Paper 391 April 2012 © Institute of Development Studies 2012 ISSN: 1353-6141 ISBN: 978-1-78118-052-5 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library. All rights reserved. Reproduction, copy, transmission, or translation of any part of this publication may be made only under the following conditions: • with the prior permission of the publisher; or • with a licence from the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd., 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9HE, UK, or from another national licensing agency; or • under the terms set out below. This
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