Economic and social impacts of conflict: A cross-country analysis

Thai-Ha Le, Manh-Tien Bui and Gazi Uddin

Economic Modelling, 2022, vol. 115, issue C

Abstract: It is important to understand how conflicts within or between countries impact national economic and social development pathways, requiring policymakers to design effective mechanisms to counter the regressive effects of conflict. We explored the relationships between conflict and different types of development outcomes: economic growth, life expectancy, and educational attainment. We applied a dynamic fixed effects estimator to an autoregressive distributed lag model using 1996–2019 panel data for 109 countries. This method enabled us to identify the different short- and long-term effects of conflict on development by mitigating the endogenous effects of the variables. Subsample analyses according to the income levels of countries produced interesting results: the higher a country's income level, the less significant the negative effects of conflict on its development.

Keywords: Conflict; Economic growth; Life expectancy; Education; Global panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 D74 F5 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2022.105980

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