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.
Our Economic Consequences of War on the US Economy report studies five periods -- World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Afghanistan/Iraq wars -- highlighting the effect on seven macro-economic factors: debt, consumption, investment, jobs, taxes, government deficits, and inflation.