Tese de Doutoramento em EconomicsEconomic growth is a very challenging field due to its essential role in improving people’s lives, and to the complexity of its causes, results, and the environment wherein it is achieved. This complexity is especially high in developing countries as many have suffered from different sorts of crises, including civil conflicts which makes the data needed to assess economic growth difficult to access. There exists, then, a substantial gap in the literature, especially in the post-conflict studies. This is due, not only to the lack of available data, but also to the vagueness of term; post-conflict period. The current thesis, therefore, ventures into this underexplored field and studies different aspects ...