More violence, less development: a preliminary assessment of armed violence and MDG achievement
OUTPUT TYPE: Research report- client
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2010
TITLE AUTHOR(S): V.Barolsky
KEYWORDS: CONFLICT RESOLUTION, CRIME AND SECURITY, MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, VIOLENCE
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 6821
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3798
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3798
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2010
TITLE AUTHOR(S): V.Barolsky
KEYWORDS: CONFLICT RESOLUTION, CRIME AND SECURITY, MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, VIOLENCE
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 6821
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3798
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3798
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Abstract
This report presents an exploratory statistical assessment of the relationships between armed violence and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It finds that poverty does not make a country more or less dangerous. Nevertheless, it finds that countries registering lower levels of human development and higher levels of income inequality experience proportionately higher levels of homicidal violence. The lower the level of human development and the wider the levels of income inequality, the higher the level of violence measured.-
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