This study assesses the comparative economics of governance in fighting terrorism in 53 African countries for period … 1996-2012. Four terrorism variables are used, namely: domestic, transnational, unclear and total terrorism dynamics. Nine … fighting terrorism. Second, the relevance of the good governance dynamics is as follows in order of increasing relevance …

& accountability have no significant negative correlations with crime. (2) The increasing relevance of government quality in the fight …) Corruption-control is the most effective mechanism in fighting crime (conflicts). The findings are significantly strong when …

corruption influences crime still remains unanswered. This paper assesses the effect of corruption (corruption-control) in 38 … African countries using updated data. We find that, crime is highly positively (negatively) correlated with corruption … corruption, implying, corruption-control offsets crime emanating beyond the corruption mechanism (inter alia, other poor …

account for persistence in global homicides: crime, political instability and weapons import positively affect homicides …

examining the relationship between Facebook penetration and violent crime levels in a cross-section of 148 countries for the … regressions, there is a negative relationship between Facebook penetration and crime. However, Quantile regressions reveal that … the established negative relationship is noticeable exclusively in the 90 th crime quantile. Further, when the dataset is …

. Insecurity dynamics are measured in terms of access to weapons, violent crime, perception of criminality and political …

In spite of the growing consensus of the need to utilise military expenditure to help combat terrorism, our … understanding of the threshold at which military expenditure reduces the effect of terrorism stemming from capital flight remains … terrorism, 5.734 to 7.363 for unclear terrorism and 4.710 to 6.617 for total terrorism. No thresholds are apparent in …

We assess the effects of terrorism on capital flight in a panel of 29 African countries for which data is available for … the period 1987-2008. The terrorism dynamics entail domestic, transnational, unclear and total terrorisms. The empirical …, with the magnitude relative higher from unclear terrorism. Second, for QR: (i) the effect of transnational terrorism is now …

This study empirically verifies the effect of terrorism on financial development and how globalisation and governance … modulate the incidence of terrorism on financial development in Africa. Two terrorism indicators are adopted for this study …, namely, the: number of terrorism incidences and number of terrorism deaths. The methodology involves the pooled data …