Civil wars and economic growth: A regional comparison

James Murdoch () and Todd Sandler

Defence and Peace Economics, 2002, vol. 13, issue 6, 451-464

Abstract: The paper examines the impact of civil wars on income per-capita growth at home and in neighbors for four regional groupings of countries: Africa, Asia, Latin America, and a pooled Asian and Latin American sample. Both macroeconomic and civil-war influences on growth differ by region. With the use of a distance measure, we demonstrate that the spatial reach from the negative consequences of a civil war are region and time period specific. Generally, there was less dispersion in Africa than in Asia and Latin America. Moreover, Africa demonstrates a greater ability to recover from the adverse effects of civil wars than the other regions tested.

Keywords: Civil Wars; Economic Growth; Spatial Econometrics; Africa; Asia; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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