Publisher(s) Suffolk University and Beacon Hill Institute
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Location(s) Worldwide
Disaster(s) armed conflict
Rights Jonathan Haughton
Find more on these topics Quick, impact, project, extensive, population movements, widespread insecurity, worsening infrastructure, macroeconomic, humanitarian, relief, Overseas, economic, cooperation, Operations Iran, Israel and Syria in Lebanon, South Africa in Mozambique, Vietnam in Cambodia, and Angola, Namibia, Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo
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This study surveys the issues involved in providing development assistance to war-torn economies, and makes a number of policy recommendations. The problem merits attention, because almost 8 million people have died in wars over the past decade, raising the total of war-related deaths in the twentieth century to at least 130 million. In 2001 an estimated 22 million people were either refugees or internally displaced, as a consequence of war. Wars typically set back economic development for a generation. The experience of the past three decades shows that even after they had enjoyed ten years of peace, almost no countries had returned to their pre-war levels of income.