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"This book investigates the role and the impacts of armies and military regimes in the Middle East. It argues that one of the main causes of the slow and stagnated economic development in the region is high military expenditure perpetuated by strong grips of armies on the politics of the...
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This paper addresses three questions: 1) what would have been the growth and income trajectory of Syria in the absence … capital, and productivity; and 3) what potential growth scenarios for Syria there could be in the aftermath of war. Estimates … of the impact of conflict point to negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth of -12 percent on average over 2011 …
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This study examines disparities in health and nutrition among native and Syrian-refugee children in Turkey. With a view … particular, the Turkey Demographic and Health Survey (TDHS). The TDHS is one of few data sets providing representative data on … mortality between refugee children born in Turkey and native children. However, refugee infants born in Turkey have lower …
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Macroeconomic costs of conflict are generally very large, with GDP per capita about 28 percent lower ten years after … conflict onset. This is overwhelmingly driven by private consumption, which falls by 25 percent ten years after conflict onset …. Conflict is also associated with dramatic declines in official trade, with exports (imports) estimated to be 58 (34) percent …
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