![]() There is however, a significant detrimental effect of conflict on access to potable water. There is little evidence of a direct effect of conflict on poverty and access to sanitation. In a large country, a conflict may be extremely detrimental to a particular subnational region experiencing warfare, but have little effect on the country as a whole.Conflicts also generate a surplus infant mortality at the same level as direct deaths-for every soldier killed in battle, one infant dies that would otherwise have survived through the indirect effects of conflict. Five years of sustained conflict with only a moderate amount of direct fatalities on average push 3–4% of the population into undernourishment. Conflicts affect negatively education, rates, undernourishment, life expectancy, GDP per capita rates, and infant mortality rates. Whilst the direct consequences of conflict are bad, the indirect consequences are much worse.The analysis shows that civil war harms the achievement of most of these development goals. The effects of armed conflict are evaluated with respect to achievement of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG) as well as on economic growth. This paper conducts a statistical analysis of the developmental consequences of conflict. ![]() It also creates a development gap between those countries that have experienced armed conflict and those that have not. ![]() In addition to battlefield casualties, armed conflict often leads to forced migration, refugee flows, capital flight, and the destruction of societies’ infrastructure. The consequences of war extend far beyond direct deaths. ![]()
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