Ethnic Diversity and Ethnic Strife. An Interdisciplinary Perspective

World Development

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-158

  Kanbur, Ravi ^a   Rajaram, Prem Kumar ^b   Varshney, Ashutosh ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict; Ethnicity; Interdisciplinary approaches

Indexed keywords

CIVIL WAR; ETHNIC CONFLICT; ETHNIC MINORITY; ETHNICITY; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; MULTICULTURALISM;

EID: 78650547852     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.034     Document Type: Article

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