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Poor Aid, Trade Policies Can Undermine Security, Say Authors of New Volume

January 22, 2007 By Wilson Center Staff

Trade, Aid and Security: An Agenda for Peace and Development, a new edited volume arriving in bookstores next week, looks at the ways in which conflict and state failure can arise from inappropriate or misused aid and trade policies, particularly when natural resources are at stake. Richard Auty and Philippe Le Billon contribute a chapter on managing revenues from natural resources, and Ian Smillie discusses the relationship between aid and conflict.

Forward and introduction available from the International Institute for Sustainable Development.

Topics: development, security