Development Consequences of Armed Conflict

Scott Gates, Håvard Hegre, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård and Håvard Strand

World Development, 2012, vol. 40, issue 9, 1713-1722

Abstract: This paper conducts the first analysis of the effect of armed conflict on progress in meeting the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals. We also examine the effect of conflict on economic growth. Conflict has clear detrimental effects on the reduction of poverty and hunger, on primary education, on the reduction of child mortality, and on access to potable water. A medium-sized conflict with 2500 battle deaths is estimated to increase undernourishment an additional 3.3%, reduce life expectancy by about 1 year, increases infant mortality by 10%, and deprives an additional 1.8% of the population from access to potable water.

Keywords: consequences of war; development; conflict; Millennium Development Goals; growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.04.031

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