How Sound Economic Policy Can Help Prevent Conflict

Macroeconomic policy can play a key role in preventing armed conflict, in turn sav­ing lives and avoiding injuries, forced displacement and mi­gration, and vast damage to the economy. That’s according to new IMF research, based on policy simu­lations incorporating machine learning-based predictions of conflict. The paper finds that every $1 invested in preven­tion—through policy efforts […]