Keen, David (2005) Liberalization and conflict. International Political Science Review, 26 (1). pp. 73-89. ISSN 0192-5121
Abstract
Externally encouraged policies of liberalization in Sierra Leone in the 1970s and 1980s fed into civil war in the 1990s; yet such policies are now being revived. This article analyzes the impact of liberalization on the war in Sierra Leone, suggesting that it affected the conflict in four ways: first, by encouraging inflation, extreme devaluation, and private oligopolies; second, by reducing key state services such as education and health; third, by fueling corruption as real state salaries were cut; and fourth, by taking attention away from soldiers’ abuses under the military government of 1992–96, a government that was praised and rewarded for its liberalization agenda.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://ips.sagepub.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2005 SAGE Publications Ltd |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Journal of Economic Literature Classification System: | L - Industrial Organization > L3 - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise > L33 - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises; Privatization; Contracting Out |
| Sets: | Departments > International Development |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Sep 2008 09:37 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/16584/ |
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