The Economic Cost of the War in Sri Lanka

Arunatilake, Nisha; Jayasuriya, Sisira; Kelegama, Saman

doi:10.1016/s0305-750x(01)00056-0

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“…Gupta et al (2004), too, find for a sample of low-and middle-income countries several adverse consequences of conflicts, including lower economic growth. In addition, case studies on specific conflicts also suggest substantially adverse economic effects (Arunatilake et al, 2001;Abadie and Gardeazabal, 2003;Ganegodage and Rambaldi, 2014).…”

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Re-Evaluating the Economic Costs of Conflicts

Fonseca

Baskaran

2015

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. countries, we find that conflicts strongly reduce light output in settlements directly affected by fighting over the period 1992-2008. In addition, conflicts have large negative spillovers both across and within countries: light output in settlements not directly exposed to fighting declines significantly once a conflict begins; neighboring countries also experience large negative effects. The negative effects of conflicts are particularly pronounced in Eastern Europe, but also observable in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South and South-East Asia. In contrast, conflicts have, on average, no negative effects on light output in the Middle East and in the West. Terms of use: Documents inWe contrast these results with cross-country regressions with GDP data, which suggest much smaller negative effects of conflicts.

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Re-Evaluating the Economic Costs of Conflicts

Fonseca

Baskaran

2015

SSRN Journal

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“…This suggests that using only GDP time series may capture most losses due to conflict. While the lack of a coherent framework of analysis makes a comparison across studies difficult, the most recent study (Arunatilake et al, 2001) GDP losses due to forgone investment and tourism account for more nearly 60% of the total costs.…”

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How Many Bucks in a Bang: On the Estimation of the Economic Costs of Conflict

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Bozzoli³

2012

Oxford Handbooks Online

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“…Ali follows what one can call a traditional approach (in the footsteps of Arunatilake, Jayasuriya, and Kelegama, 2001, Abadie and Gardeazabal, 2003, Reitschuler and Loening, 2005 and others) through his analysis of the costs of the conflict in Darfur. This work's strength is the fact that the Sudan conflict has not been previously researched and the results thus form a new benchmark for the impact of that conflict.…”

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“…The accounting technique aims to calculate the total replacement value of goods destroyed as a result of conflict, whereas the counterfactual analysis estimates a conflict-free outcome and considers the gap between such a counterfactual and the actual situation as the costs attributable to conflict. Arunatilake, Jayasuriya, and Kelegama (2001) are an example of a range of country studies using the accounting methodology. They include direct costs like war-related expenditure, and add estimations using time series regressions based on a differentiated forgone-investment model.…”

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