Short Review: The Locust Effect: Why The End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence by Gary Haugen - a really important (and well written) book about why international development needs to include violence reduction and improvement of the legal and justice systems in the developing world to continue to see reductions in world wide poverty rates.

The book is at times hard to read because of the details of the suffering going on around the world. Rape, murder, slavery and other violence are real to many. This is a systemic look at how violence both most affects the poor and why violence and lack of legal systems keeps the poor poor.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/locust-effect/