This paper challenges the idea that farmers revert to subsistence farming when confronted with violence from civil war. Macro-economic evidence on economic legacies of civil war suggests that civil wars, while obviously disastrous in the short run, do notCivil war, investment, post-traumatic growth

Nillesen, Eleonora

Verwim, Philip

Research Papers in Economics

English

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