It reviews costing methodologies and identifies types of costs that potentially can be estimated given different degrees of data availability. This paper makes a major contribution to the discussion of economic implications of intimate partner violence (IPV) through its conceptual mapping of the links between IPV and economic growth, based on a review of literature on their complex dynamics. Violence against women has significant economic costs in terms of expenditures on service provision, lost income for women and their families, decreased productivity, and negative impacts on future human capital formation. Violence against women, recognized globally as a fundamental human rights violation, is widely prevalent across high-, middle- and low–income countries.
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