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There
is growing interest in recent years in the economic dimensions
of civil wars and other violent social conflicts. This paper
discusses some of the conceptual and methodological problems
associated with assessing the economic costs of such conflicts,
and presents an evaluation of the costs of the (still ongoing)
conflict in Sri Lanka. On conservative assumptions, the
war may have cost the equivalent of twice Sri Lanka’s
1996 GDP.
Table of Contents
- Background and Consequences of the War
- Estimating the Economic Costs of War: Some Methodological
Issues
- Previous Studies of the Cost of the War in Sri Lanka
- Estimating the Costs of the War: Methods and Results
- Concluding Remarks
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