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The economic and social costs of armed conflict in El Salvador Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE INTERNAL CONFLICT ECONOMIC GROWTH SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT RECONSTRUCTION El Salvador's civil war (1979-91) had devastating economic and social costs. This note estimates the ground lost in terms of growth forgone, higher poverty and worsened social indicators. Had the conflict been avoided, income per capita could be almost double in 2000, the poverty rate lower by 15 percentage points and Millenium Development Goals social indicators substantially better. El Salvador's experience shows that conflicts are not only extremely costly in economic and social terms, but that recovery takes an inordinate amount of time, even with very good post-conflict policies and reforms. 2026-09-30T11:52:18Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33357948.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/The_economic_and_social_costs_of_armed_conflict_in_El_Salvador/33357948 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0