Tritium 'peace dividend'

IMF Staff Papers - December 2001 - Military Spending, the Peace Dividend, and Fiscal Adjustment

ing from private investment, the economy-wide budget constraint is determined by the available resources in the economy:

Civil War and the Economics of the Peace Dividend WPS/95-8

Civil wars dramatically reduce income. Peace might therefore be expected to generate a dividend which both the government and the private sector can spend. Paradoxically, those civil wars which are prolonged and therefore do most damage create only small instant peace dividends. Income has fallen because capital has been lost and so cannot recover until capital has been reaccumulated. However, ...

Estimating the peace dividend: The impact of violence on house prices in Northern Ireland

This paper exploits data on the pattern of violence across regions and over time to estimate the impact of the peace process in Northern Ireland on house prices. We begin with a linear model that estimates the average treatment e¤ect of a con‡ict-related killing on house prices –showing a negative correlation between house prices and killings. We then develop an approach based on an economic mo...

Violence , Peace , and Peace Research

Society In Transition I: A Broader Congressional Agenda for Equal Employment-The Peace Dividend, Leapfrogging, and Other Matters