Brainard, Lael (ed.); Chollet, Derek H. (ed.) - 2007
Extreme poverty exhausts institutions, depletes resources, weakens leadership, and ultimately contributes to rising … insecurity and conflict. Just as poverty begets insecurity, however, the reverse is also true. As the destabilizing effects of … conflict settle in, civil institutions are undermined and poverty proliferates. Breaking this nexus between poverty and …