Overview of included literature
| Paper | Timeframe of records | Sample size (# countries) | Methods | Focus on health1 | Focus on economic poverty1 | Focus on inequality1 | Focus on access to education1 | Negative impact reported2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Author | Year | ||||||||
| A different kind of war: The UN sanctions regime in Iraq | von Sponeck | 2022 | 1996–2003 | 1 | Quantitaive, Qualitative | x | x | x | Yes | |
| Cuba: confronting the US embargo | Schwab | 1999 | NN | 1 | Qualitative | x | x | Yes | ||
| Do International Sanctions Reduce Household and Government Consumption in Developing Countries? | Williams | 2021 | 1996–2015 | 30 | Quantitative | x | Mixed | |||
| Economic sanctions: a blunt instrument? | Allen, Lektzian | 2013 | 1990–2007 | 199 | Quantitative | x | x | Mixed | ||
| Economic warfare: sanctions, embargo busting, and their human cost | Naylor | 2001 | NN | Qualitative | x | x | Mixed | |||
| Employment effects of economic sanctions in Iran | Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Nisticò | 2022 | 2008–2014 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | |||
| Employment, Skill Upgrading, and International Trade : the Case of Sanctions Against Iran | Nosratabadi | 2019 | 2001–2015 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | |||
| Evidence and policy implications of sanctions in the long run: the case of Iran | Laudati | 2023 | 1989–2019 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Gender | x | Yes | |
| Humanitarian impacts of economic sanctions on Iran and Syria | Moret | 2013 | NN | 2 | Qualitative | [x] | Yes | |||
| Identifying the Effects of Sanctions on the Iranian Economy Using Newspaper Coverage | Laudati, Pesaran | 2023 | 1979–2021 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Income, Gender | [x] | Yes | |
| Impact of the 2017 sanctions on Venezuela - Revisiting the evidence | Bahar, Bustos, Morales, Santos | 2019 | 2010–2018 | 1 | Qualitative | x | x | No | ||
| International sanctions and development: evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean (1950–2019) | Gonzales | 2022 | 1950–2019 | 41 | Qualitative | x | Income | Yes | ||
| Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and its Gender Gap | Gutmann, Neuenkirch, Neumeier | 2021 | 1977–2012 | 98 | Quantitative | x | [x] | Gender | [x] | Yes |
| Sanctioned to Starve? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Food Security in Targeted States | Afesorgbor | 2021 | 1990–2014 | 66 | Quantitative | x | x | Yes | ||
| The Effects of the Re-imposition of US Sanctions on Food Security in Iran | Hejazi, Emamgholipour | 2022 | 2017–2019 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | |||
| The embargo as violation of human rights | Bonati | 2002 | NN | Quantitative | x | Yes | ||||
| The human capital legacy of a trade embargo | Chakravarty, Parey, Wright | 2021 | 1996–2011 | 1 | Quantitative | x | x | x | Mixed | |
| The Impact of Sanctions on Household Welfare and Employment in Iran | Salehi-Isfahani | 2023 | 1984–2020 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | |||
| Children of Iran: born into a Middle-Income State, Caught Between War, Embargo and Rising Social Indicators | Yousefzadeh, Gassmann | 2012 | 1984–2009 | 1 | Quantitative | Gender | Yes | |||
| Gender Aspect of Economic Sanctions : case Study of Women’s Economic Rights in Iran | Taheri, Lisaniler | 2018 | 1990–2016 | 1 | Qualitative, Quantitative | x | Gender | [x] | Yes | |
| Gendered effects of sanctions on manufacturing employment: evidence from Iran | Demir, Tabrizy | 2022 | 1995–2014 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Gender | Mixed | ||
| International sanctions and energy poverty in target developing countries | Moteng, Raghutla, Njangang, Nembot | 2023 | 1996–2019 | 97 | Quantitative | x | Income | Yes | ||
| An investigation of relationship between global economic sanction and life expectancy: do financial and institutional system matter? | Ha, Nam | 2022 | 1995–2018 | 148 | Quantitative | x | [x] | Yes | ||
| Challenge of Politico-Economic Sanctions on Pharmaceutical Procurement in Iran: a Qualitative Study | Bastani, Dehghan, Kashfi, Dorosti, Mohammadpour, Mehralian | 2022 | 2019 | 1 | Qualitative | x | Yes | |||
| Changing views on child mortality and economic sanctions in Iraq: a history of lies, damned lies and statistics. | Dyson, Cetorelli | 2017 | 1974–2010 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | |||
| Civil War and Economic Sanctions: analysis of Anthropometric Outcomes in Burundi | Bundervoet, Verwimp | 2005 | 1993–1998 | 1 | Quantitative | x | x | [x] | Yes | |
| COVID-19 and Sanctions Affecting Afghans in Iran | Shafaei, Block | 2022 | 1 | Qualitative | x | [x] | Yes | |||
| Dental caries experience and availability of sugars in Iraqi children before and after the United Nations sanctions | Jamel, Plasschaert, Sheiham | 2004 | 1989–1995 | 1 | Quantitative | x | [x] | Mixe | ||
| Drug adherence of patients with epilepsy in Iran: the effects of the international economic sanctions | Asadi-Pooya, Tavana, Tavana, Emami | 2016 | 2010–2011 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | |||
| The impact of the economic crisis and the US embargo on health in Cuba | Garfield, Santana | 1997 | 1980–1996 | 1 | Quantitative | x | x | Yes | ||
| The Impact of Economlic Sanctions on Health and Human Rights in Haiti, 1991-1994 | Gibbons, Garfield | 1999 | 1991–1994 | 1 | Quantitative | x | x | x | Mixed | |
| Hapatitis B infection among Iraqi children: The impact of sanctions | Ali | 2004 | 1994–1998 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | |||
| Impact of economic sanctions on access to noncommunicable diseases medicines in the Islamic Republic of Iran | Kheirandish, Varahrami, Kebriaeezade, Cheraghali | 2018 | 2008–2013 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | |||
| Impact of sanctions on the population of Iraq | Popal | 2000 | 1988–1999 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | |||
| Impact of the economic sanctions on duodenal ulcer in Iraq | Al Jawher | 1997 | 1989–1993 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | |||
| Impacts of the international economic sanctions on Iranian patients with epilepsy | Asadi-Pooya, Azizimalamiri, Badv, Yarali, Asadollahi, Homayoun, Sharifi | 2019 | 2019 | 1 | Qualitative | x | Yes | |||
| International Sanctions and the Procurement of Medical Equipment in Iran: a Qualitative Study | Azami, Hosseini, Alimohammadzadeh, Jafari, Bahadori | 2021 | 2018–2019 | 1 | Qualitative | x | Yes | |||
| Nutritional status of Haitian children, 1978–1995: deleterious consequences of political instability and international sanctions | Mulder-Sibanda | 1998 | 1978–1994 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | |||
| Physical rehabilitation in Iran after international sanctions: explored findings from a qualitative study | Shahabi, Teymourlouy, Shabaninejad, Kamali, Lankarani, Mojgani | 2020 | 2019 | 1 | Qualitative | x | Yes | |||
| Sanctions and their impacts on medical trade and health outcomes | Miromanova | 2023 | 1988–2021 | 67 | Quantitative | x | [x] | Gender | [x] | Yes |
| Secular trend of infant mortality rate during wars and sanctions in Western Iraq | Al-Ani, Al-Hiali, Al-Farraji | 2011 | 1987–2010 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Gender | Yes | ||
| Relationship between Political-Economic Sanctions and Catastrophic Health Costs in Multiple Sclerosis Patients in Iran | Gharibi, Imani, Haghi, Dalal | 2022 | 2018–2019 | 1 | Quantitative | x | [x] | [x] | Yes | |
| The effect of an international embargo on malnutrition and childhood mortality in rural Haiti | Reid, Psoter, Gebrian, Wang | 2007 | 1989–1996 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | |||
| The effect of economic sanctions on the mortality of Iraqi children prior to the 1991 Persian Gulf War | Daponte, Garfield | 2000 | 1991 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Gender | Yes | ||
| The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Health and Well-being | Garfield | 1999 | 1992–1994 | 3 | Quantitative | x | x | Yes | ||
| The Impact of the Sanctions Made Against Iran on Availability to Asthma Medicines in Tehran | Ghiasi, Rashidian, Kebriaeezadeh, Salamzadehd | 2016 | 2012–2013 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | |||
| The impacts of economic sanctions on the performance of hospitals in Iran: implications for human rights | Karami Matin, Soltani, Byford, Soofi, Rezaei, Kazemi-Karyani, Hosseini, Tolouei Rakhshan | 2022 | 2019–2020 | 1 | Qualitative | x | Yes | |||
| The politics of suffering: the impact of the US Embargo on the health of the Cuban people: report to the American public health association of a fact-finding trip to Cuba, June 6-11, 1993 | Kuntz, Jackson | 1994 | 1993 | 1 | Qualitative | x | x | Yes | ||
| Better for whom? Sanction type and the gendered consequences for women | Perry | 2022 | (1990–2014) | 84 | Quantitative | x | Gender | x | Yes | |
| On Some Aspects and Consequences of the Impact of Anti-Russian Sanctions on Vocational Education in the Russian Federation | Golovina, Arakelyan, Kara-Kazaryan, Tkacheva, Totskaya | 2021 | 2014–2018 | 1 | Qualitative | x | x | Mixed | ||
| The intergenerational effects of economic sanctions | Moeeni | 2021 | 1995–2015 | 1 | Quantitative | x | x | Yes | ||
| Sectarianism, sanctions and invasion: the challenge of promoting educational equality in Iraq | Miles, Alborz | 2014 | 2010 | 1 | Qualitative | x | Yes | |||
| Paper | Timeframe of records | Sample size (# countries) | Methods | Focus on health1 | Focus on economic poverty1 | Focus on inequality1 | Focus on access to education1 | Negative impact reported2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Author | Year | ||||||||
| A different kind of war: The UN sanctions regime in Iraq | von Sponeck | 1996–2003 | 1 | Quantitaive, Qualitative | x | x | x | Yes | ||
| Cuba: confronting the US embargo | Schwab | NN | 1 | Qualitative | x | x | Yes | |||
| Do International Sanctions Reduce Household and Government Consumption in Developing Countries? | Williams | 1996–2015 | 30 | Quantitative | x | Mixed | ||||
| Economic sanctions: a blunt instrument? | Allen, Lektzian | 1990–2007 | 199 | Quantitative | x | x | Mixed | |||
| Economic warfare: sanctions, embargo busting, and their human cost | Naylor | NN | Qualitative | x | x | Mixed | ||||
| Employment effects of economic sanctions in Iran | Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Nisticò | 2008–2014 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | ||||
| Employment, Skill Upgrading, and International Trade : the Case of Sanctions Against Iran | Nosratabadi | 2001–2015 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | ||||
| Evidence and policy implications of sanctions in the long run: the case of Iran | Laudati | 1989–2019 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Gender | x | Yes | ||
| Humanitarian impacts of economic sanctions on Iran and Syria | Moret | NN | 2 | Qualitative | [x] | Yes | ||||
| Identifying the Effects of Sanctions on the Iranian Economy Using Newspaper Coverage | Laudati, Pesaran | 1979–2021 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Income, Gender | [x] | Yes | ||
| Impact of the 2017 sanctions on Venezuela - Revisiting the evidence | Bahar, Bustos, Morales, Santos | 2010–2018 | 1 | Qualitative | x | x | No | |||
| International sanctions and development: evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean (1950–2019) | Gonzales | 1950–2019 | 41 | Qualitative | x | Income | Yes | |||
| Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and its Gender Gap | Gutmann, Neuenkirch, Neumeier | 1977–2012 | 98 | Quantitative | x | [x] | Gender | [x] | Yes | |
| Sanctioned to Starve? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Food Security in Targeted States | Afesorgbor | 1990–2014 | 66 | Quantitative | x | x | Yes | |||
| The Effects of the Re-imposition of US Sanctions on Food Security in Iran | Hejazi, Emamgholipour | 2017–2019 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | ||||
| The embargo as violation of human rights | Bonati | NN | Quantitative | x | Yes | |||||
| The human capital legacy of a trade embargo | Chakravarty, Parey, Wright | 1996–2011 | 1 | Quantitative | x | x | x | Mixed | ||
| The Impact of Sanctions on Household Welfare and Employment in Iran | Salehi-Isfahani | 1984–2020 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | ||||
| Children of Iran: born into a Middle-Income State, Caught Between War, Embargo and Rising Social Indicators | Yousefzadeh, Gassmann | 1984–2009 | 1 | Quantitative | Gender | Yes | ||||
| Gender Aspect of Economic Sanctions : case Study of Women’s Economic Rights in Iran | Taheri, Lisaniler | 1990–2016 | 1 | Qualitative, Quantitative | x | Gender | [x] | Yes | ||
| Gendered effects of sanctions on manufacturing employment: evidence from Iran | Demir, Tabrizy | 1995–2014 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Gender | Mixed | |||
| International sanctions and energy poverty in target developing countries | Moteng, Raghutla, Njangang, Nembot | 1996–2019 | 97 | Quantitative | x | Income | Yes | |||
| An investigation of relationship between global economic sanction and life expectancy: do financial and institutional system matter? | Ha, Nam | 1995–2018 | 148 | Quantitative | x | [x] | Yes | |||
| Challenge of Politico-Economic Sanctions on Pharmaceutical Procurement in Iran: a Qualitative Study | Bastani, Dehghan, Kashfi, Dorosti, Mohammadpour, Mehralian | 2019 | 1 | Qualitative | x | Yes | ||||
| Changing views on child mortality and economic sanctions in Iraq: a history of lies, damned lies and statistics. | Dyson, Cetorelli | 1974–2010 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | ||||
| Civil War and Economic Sanctions: analysis of Anthropometric Outcomes in Burundi | Bundervoet, Verwimp | 1993–1998 | 1 | Quantitative | x | x | [x] | Yes | ||
| COVID-19 and Sanctions Affecting Afghans in Iran | Shafaei, Block | 1 | Qualitative | x | [x] | Yes | ||||
| Dental caries experience and availability of sugars in Iraqi children before and after the United Nations sanctions | Jamel, Plasschaert, Sheiham | 1989–1995 | 1 | Quantitative | x | [x] | Mixe | |||
| Drug adherence of patients with epilepsy in Iran: the effects of the international economic sanctions | Asadi-Pooya, Tavana, Tavana, Emami | 2010–2011 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | ||||
| The impact of the economic crisis and the US embargo on health in Cuba | Garfield, Santana | 1980–1996 | 1 | Quantitative | x | x | Yes | |||
| The Impact of Economlic Sanctions on Health and Human Rights in Haiti, 1991-1994 | Gibbons, Garfield | 1991–1994 | 1 | Quantitative | x | x | x | Mixed | ||
| Hapatitis B infection among Iraqi children: The impact of sanctions | Ali | 1994–1998 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | ||||
| Impact of economic sanctions on access to noncommunicable diseases medicines in the Islamic Republic of Iran | Kheirandish, Varahrami, Kebriaeezade, Cheraghali | 2008–2013 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | ||||
| Impact of sanctions on the population of Iraq | Popal | 1988–1999 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | ||||
| Impact of the economic sanctions on duodenal ulcer in Iraq | Al Jawher | 1989–1993 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | ||||
| Impacts of the international economic sanctions on Iranian patients with epilepsy | Asadi-Pooya, Azizimalamiri, Badv, Yarali, Asadollahi, Homayoun, Sharifi | 2019 | 1 | Qualitative | x | Yes | ||||
| International Sanctions and the Procurement of Medical Equipment in Iran: a Qualitative Study | Azami, Hosseini, Alimohammadzadeh, Jafari, Bahadori | 2018–2019 | 1 | Qualitative | x | Yes | ||||
| Nutritional status of Haitian children, 1978–1995: deleterious consequences of political instability and international sanctions | Mulder-Sibanda | 1978–1994 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | ||||
| Physical rehabilitation in Iran after international sanctions: explored findings from a qualitative study | Shahabi, Teymourlouy, Shabaninejad, Kamali, Lankarani, Mojgani | 2019 | 1 | Qualitative | x | Yes | ||||
| Sanctions and their impacts on medical trade and health outcomes | Miromanova | 1988–2021 | 67 | Quantitative | x | [x] | Gender | [x] | Yes | |
| Secular trend of infant mortality rate during wars and sanctions in Western Iraq | Al-Ani, Al-Hiali, Al-Farraji | 1987–2010 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Gender | Yes | |||
| Relationship between Political-Economic Sanctions and Catastrophic Health Costs in Multiple Sclerosis Patients in Iran | Gharibi, Imani, Haghi, Dalal | 2018–2019 | 1 | Quantitative | x | [x] | [x] | Yes | ||
| The effect of an international embargo on malnutrition and childhood mortality in rural Haiti | Reid, Psoter, Gebrian, Wang | 1989–1996 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | ||||
| The effect of economic sanctions on the mortality of Iraqi children prior to the 1991 Persian Gulf War | Daponte, Garfield | 1991 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Gender | Yes | |||
| The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Health and Well-being | Garfield | 1992–1994 | 3 | Quantitative | x | x | Yes | |||
| The Impact of the Sanctions Made Against Iran on Availability to Asthma Medicines in Tehran | Ghiasi, Rashidian, Kebriaeezadeh, Salamzadehd | 2012–2013 | 1 | Quantitative | x | Yes | ||||
| The impacts of economic sanctions on the performance of hospitals in Iran: implications for human rights | Karami Matin, Soltani, Byford, Soofi, Rezaei, Kazemi-Karyani, Hosseini, Tolouei Rakhshan | 2019–2020 | 1 | Qualitative | x | Yes | ||||
| The politics of suffering: the impact of the US Embargo on the health of the Cuban people: report to the American public health association of a fact-finding trip to Cuba, June 6-11, 1993 | Kuntz, Jackson | 1993 | 1 | Qualitative | x | x | Yes | |||
| Better for whom? Sanction type and the gendered consequences for women | Perry | (1990–2014) | 84 | Quantitative | x | Gender | x | Yes | ||
| On Some Aspects and Consequences of the Impact of Anti-Russian Sanctions on Vocational Education in the Russian Federation | Golovina, Arakelyan, Kara-Kazaryan, Tkacheva, Totskaya | 2014–2018 | 1 | Qualitative | x | x | Mixed | |||
| The intergenerational effects of economic sanctions | Moeeni | 1995–2015 | 1 | Quantitative | x | x | Yes | |||
| Sectarianism, sanctions and invasion: the challenge of promoting educational equality in Iraq | Miles, Alborz | 2010 | 1 | Qualitative | x | Yes | ||||
Note(s): 1[x]: not included in dependent variables but considered (e.g. as control variable), 2Mixed: Adverse effects reported for some dependent variables / study populations but not all
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