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Civil war is obviously damaging for both society and the economy. The social consequences are often difficult to measure: for example, people die as a result of disease and are traumatized through rape or experience as child soldiers. However, the consequences for the economy are much more amenable to quantification, and a key economic research issue has been to try to classify and quantify the economic damage.
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Collier, P. (2018). Growth and Civil War. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2318
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