Estimating the Fiscal Impact of Peacekeeping Missions
Estimating the Fiscal Impact of Peacekeeping Missions
2006
The purpose of this paper is to outline the methodology used to estimate the fiscal impact of United Nations peacekeeping missions on the host economy. Results on eight current and one former mission are presented. The report outlines the methodology used and focuses on isolating the local impact of the spending by starting with the expenditure reported to the General Assembly and then successively removing elements of that spending that either was never spent in the host country or was spent on either imported goods, services or factors of production. This paper provides a summary of results across the different countries that hosted UN missions and some of the associated economic impacts.