The Economic and Social Costs of Armed Conflict in El Salvador

This note puts figures behind the notion of poverty resulting from war. Using simulation models, the author estimates the economic and social costs of the El Salvadorian conflict. The calculations suggest that had conflict been avoided, income per...

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Main Author:	Lopez, Humberto
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	CIVIL WAR COUNTRY SPECIFIC CROSS COUNTRY DEMOCRACY DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC LITERATURE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EXPLANATORY VARIABLES GDP GLOBAL ECONOMY GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEADCOUNT POVERTY HEALTH INDICATORS HEALTH SECTOR ILLITERACY INCOME INCOME LEVEL INCOME LEVELS INEQUALITY INFANT MORTALITY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY INTERVENTION LABOR MARKETS LAND INEQUALITY MACROECONOMIC POLICIES MALNUTRITION MEAN INCOME NEGATIVE EFFECT NEGATIVE IMPACT PER CAPITA INCOME POLITICAL SYSTEM POVERTY HEADCOUNT POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION PRIMARY EDUCATION PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE REAL PER CAPITA INCOME SIGNIFICANT EFFECT SIGNIFICANT IMPACT SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL WELFARE TELEPHONE LINES TELEPHONES TERTIARY EDUCATION URBANIZATION VIOLENCE WELL BEING ARMED CONFLICTS POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION GUERILLA WARFARE PARAMILITARY GROUPS COUNTERINSURGENCY PEACE AGREEMENTS SOCIAL COSTS ECONOMIC LOSS PER CAPITA GNP POVERTY ANALYSIS WAR DAMAGE POVERTY ISSUES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/2166836/economic-social-costs-armed-conflict-el-salvador http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11326

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spelling	okr-10986-113262021-04-23T14:02:55Z The Economic and Social Costs of Armed Conflict in El Salvador Lopez, Humberto CIVIL WAR COUNTRY SPECIFIC CROSS COUNTRY DEMOCRACY DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC LITERATURE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EXPLANATORY VARIABLES GDP GLOBAL ECONOMY GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEADCOUNT POVERTY HEALTH INDICATORS HEALTH SECTOR ILLITERACY INCOME INCOME LEVEL INCOME LEVELS INEQUALITY INFANT MORTALITY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY INTERVENTION LABOR MARKETS LAND INEQUALITY MACROECONOMIC POLICIES MALNUTRITION MEAN INCOME NEGATIVE EFFECT NEGATIVE IMPACT PER CAPITA INCOME POLITICAL SYSTEM POVERTY HEADCOUNT POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION PRIMARY EDUCATION PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE REAL PER CAPITA INCOME SIGNIFICANT EFFECT SIGNIFICANT IMPACT SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL WELFARE TELEPHONE LINES TELEPHONES TERTIARY EDUCATION URBANIZATION VIOLENCE WELL BEING ARMED CONFLICTS POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION GUERILLA WARFARE PARAMILITARY GROUPS COUNTERINSURGENCY PEACE AGREEMENTS CIVIL WAR SOCIAL COSTS ECONOMIC LOSS ECONOMIC GROWTH PER CAPITA GNP POVERTY ANALYSIS HEALTH INDICATORS WAR DAMAGE SOCIAL WELFARE POVERTY ISSUES This note puts figures behind the notion of poverty resulting from war. Using simulation models, the author estimates the economic and social costs of the El Salvadorian conflict. The calculations suggest that had conflict been avoided, income per capita would have been almost the double of its actual value in 2002, the poverty rate lower by 15 percentage points, and Millenium Development Goals (MDG) indicators substantially better. 2012-08-13T14:45:59Z 2012-08-13T14:45:59Z 2003-01 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/2166836/economic-social-costs-armed-conflict-el-salvador http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11326 English Social Development Notes; No. 8 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean El Salvador
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topic	CIVIL WAR COUNTRY SPECIFIC CROSS COUNTRY DEMOCRACY DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC LITERATURE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EXPLANATORY VARIABLES GDP GLOBAL ECONOMY GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEADCOUNT POVERTY HEALTH INDICATORS HEALTH SECTOR ILLITERACY INCOME INCOME LEVEL INCOME LEVELS INEQUALITY INFANT MORTALITY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY INTERVENTION LABOR MARKETS LAND INEQUALITY MACROECONOMIC POLICIES MALNUTRITION MEAN INCOME NEGATIVE EFFECT NEGATIVE IMPACT PER CAPITA INCOME POLITICAL SYSTEM POVERTY HEADCOUNT POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION PRIMARY EDUCATION PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE REAL PER CAPITA INCOME SIGNIFICANT EFFECT SIGNIFICANT IMPACT SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL WELFARE TELEPHONE LINES TELEPHONES TERTIARY EDUCATION URBANIZATION VIOLENCE WELL BEING ARMED CONFLICTS POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION GUERILLA WARFARE PARAMILITARY GROUPS COUNTERINSURGENCY PEACE AGREEMENTS CIVIL WAR SOCIAL COSTS ECONOMIC LOSS ECONOMIC GROWTH PER CAPITA GNP POVERTY ANALYSIS HEALTH INDICATORS WAR DAMAGE SOCIAL WELFARE POVERTY ISSUES
spellingShingle	CIVIL WAR COUNTRY SPECIFIC CROSS COUNTRY DEMOCRACY DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC LITERATURE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EXPLANATORY VARIABLES GDP GLOBAL ECONOMY GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEADCOUNT POVERTY HEALTH INDICATORS HEALTH SECTOR ILLITERACY INCOME INCOME LEVEL INCOME LEVELS INEQUALITY INFANT MORTALITY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY INTERVENTION LABOR MARKETS LAND INEQUALITY MACROECONOMIC POLICIES MALNUTRITION MEAN INCOME NEGATIVE EFFECT NEGATIVE IMPACT PER CAPITA INCOME POLITICAL SYSTEM POVERTY HEADCOUNT POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION PRIMARY EDUCATION PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE REAL PER CAPITA INCOME SIGNIFICANT EFFECT SIGNIFICANT IMPACT SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL WELFARE TELEPHONE LINES TELEPHONES TERTIARY EDUCATION URBANIZATION VIOLENCE WELL BEING ARMED CONFLICTS POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION GUERILLA WARFARE PARAMILITARY GROUPS COUNTERINSURGENCY PEACE AGREEMENTS CIVIL WAR SOCIAL COSTS ECONOMIC LOSS ECONOMIC GROWTH PER CAPITA GNP POVERTY ANALYSIS HEALTH INDICATORS WAR DAMAGE SOCIAL WELFARE POVERTY ISSUES Lopez, Humberto The Economic and Social Costs of Armed Conflict in El Salvador
geographic_facet	Latin America & Caribbean El Salvador
relation	Social Development Notes; No. 8
description	This note puts figures behind the notion of poverty resulting from war. Using simulation models, the author estimates the economic and social costs of the El Salvadorian conflict. The calculations suggest that had conflict been avoided, income per capita would have been almost the double of its actual value in 2002, the poverty rate lower by 15 percentage points, and Millenium Development Goals (MDG) indicators substantially better.
format	Publications & Research :: Brief
author	Lopez, Humberto
author_facet	Lopez, Humberto
author_sort	Lopez, Humberto
title	The Economic and Social Costs of Armed Conflict in El Salvador
title_short	The Economic and Social Costs of Armed Conflict in El Salvador
title_full	The Economic and Social Costs of Armed Conflict in El Salvador
title_fullStr	The Economic and Social Costs of Armed Conflict in El Salvador
title_full_unstemmed	The Economic and Social Costs of Armed Conflict in El Salvador
title_sort	economic and social costs of armed conflict in el salvador
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/2166836/economic-social-costs-armed-conflict-el-salvador http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11326
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The Economic and Social Costs of Armed Conflict in El Salvador

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