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This chapter focuses on long-term policies to prevent emergencies, linked to an analysis of root causes. It emphasizes economic approaches: stabilization, adjustment and reform; aid and debt relief; foreign investment; institutional change; safety nets for the poor; reduction of inequalities; and food and agriculture. A political economy approach includes economic analysis but also examines the interests of political leaders and policy-makers who make economic decisions, and of members of the population (domestic or foreign) who are affected by these decisions.
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Nafziger, E.W. (2002). The Political Economy of Preventing Humanitarian Emergencies. In: Nafziger, E.W., Väyrynen, R. (eds) The Prevention of Humanitarian Emergencies. Studies in Development Economics and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403905321_2
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