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A comma might be unnecessary:
The post-war economic development of vanquished nations can be rapid* if they are...
Agreed. Indeed, for the meaning "only if," it would probably be better to omit the comma--to indicate that the clause is restrictive. In fact--thinking as I write this--your suggestion seems better and better. Punctuation is to help the reader: no-one will wrongly run "rapid if" together. I'll fix it.
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The post-war economic development of vanquished nations can be rapid, if they are not looted by the victors. For this there are two reasons. First, everything has not been destroyed: some things are merely broken; and a relatively small effort of rehabilitation is multiplied by the value of what remains serviceable. Second is the disabling of entrenched power structures, which often stand as a bar to progress.
tillagd av halfb1t, 27 november 2012
The post-war economic development of vanquished nations can be rapid if they are not looted by the victors. For this there are two reasons. First, everything has not been destroyed: some things are merely broken; and a relatively small effort of rehabilitation is multiplied by the value of what remains serviceable. Second is the disabling of entrenched power structures, which often stand as a bar to progress.
redigerad av halfb1t, 27 november 2012
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