Gates, Scott; Hegre, Håvard; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv; … - In: World Development 40 (2012) 9, pp. 1713-1722
This paper conducts the first analysis of the effect of armed conflict on progress in meeting the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals. We also examine the effect of conflict on economic growth. Conflict has clear detrimental effects on the reduction of poverty and hunger, on primary...