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##plugins.schemas.marc.fields.title.name## Poverty-Conflict Nexus: The Contentious Issue Revisited
 
##plugins.schemas.marc.fields.creator.name## Ikejiaku, Brian Vincent
 
##plugins.schemas.marc.fields.description.name## Most scholars, who have contributed to the Poverty-Conflict debate, took the positionthat poverty on its own cannot cause conflict, though a few others think otherwise.Focusing on Africa, this paper in contributing to this debate, briefly looks at the large-works of scholars including their theoretical and empirical positions. It then considerssome of the primary variables: economic, political, and ethnicity that can help in theexplanation of poverty-conflict issue. Employing the human-needs perspective, the paperargues on politics that is the role of government and how its level of corruptioninfluences the way in which poverty affects conflict that hinders development in Africa.
 
##plugins.schemas.marc.fields.publisher.name## European Center of Sustainable Development
 
##plugins.schemas.marc.fields.date.name## 2012-06-01
 
##plugins.schemas.marc.fields.type.name## info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
 
##plugins.schemas.marc.fields.format.name## application/pdf
 
##plugins.schemas.marc.fields.identifier.name## http://www.ecsdev.org/ojs/index.php/ejsd/article/view/10
10.14207/ejsd.2012.v1n2p127
 
##plugins.schemas.marc.fields.source.name## European Journal of Sustainable Development; Vol. 1 No. 2; 127
2239-6101
2239-5938
 
##plugins.schemas.marc.fields.language.name## eng
 
##plugins.schemas.marc.fields.relation.name## http://www.ecsdev.org/ojs/index.php/ejsd/article/view/10/4