You could hear it on mainstream radio in 1978, courtesy of The Police, and if you're in Britain, you can hear it on the airwaves today, in the music of Birmingham-born MC Lady Leshurr: reggae's influence on British music.
Since civil war reduces the productivity of factors in production, this lowers the. rate of return on investments made in the domestic economy. Further, the destructive eï¬ect of. civil war increases the rate of depreciation. Again, this reduces the rate of return on domestic. investments.
The current situation is far more akin to the Gulf war than to wars that may have contributed to economic growth. Indeed, the economic effects of a second war against Iraq would probably be far more adverse. The second world war called for total mobilisation, requiring a country's total resources, and that is what wiped out unemployment.