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recurrently in the last two decades. Poverty, unemployment, inequality and other socio-economic issues are intertwined with acts … of violence and terrorism. The economic cost of terrorism and counter-terrorism must be taken serious note of. The … potentially rich tourism industry of Kashmir is very badly hit by the terrorism industry. Terrorism once a companion of history is …
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In this paper, we analyze the effect of US economic sanctions on the target countries' poverty gap during the period … are indeed affecting the wrong people as we observe a 2.3-5.1 percentage points (pp) larger poverty gap in sanctioned … assets, or embargoes on most or all economic activity are particularly detrimental and lead to an increase in the poverty gap …
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In this paper, we analyze the effect of US economic sanctions on the target countries' poverty gap during the period … are indeed affecting the wrong people as we observe a 2.3 - 5.1 percentage points (pp) larger poverty gap in sanctioned … assets, or embargoes on most or all economic activity are particularly detrimental and lead to an increase in the poverty gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505144
Despite record economic growth in the decade that followed the fall of the Taliban regime, poverty remained stubbornly …
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This article examines the causal relationship between foreign aid, poverty, and economic growth in 82 developing … relationship between economic growth and poverty; (b) a unidirectional causal relationship from economic growth to foreign aid; and … (c) unidirectional causality from poverty to foreign aid. In the long-run, the study found that (a) foreign aid tends to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149196
We investigate how foreign aid dampens the effects of terrorism on FDI using interactive quantile regressions. The … used, while terrorism dynamics entail: domestic, unclear, transnational and total number of terrorist attacks. The … transnational terrorism in bilateral aid regressions, the impacts of terrorism dynamics are unexpectedly positive, in: (i) bottoms …
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This article empirically investigates whether, and in which ways, donors in the Development Assistance Committee respond to transnational terrorist incidents and the onset of the War on Terror through changes in aid effort and aid allocation. First, an analysis of 22 donor countries shows that...
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terrorism on economic growth, using a panel of 78 developing nations with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence … is based on interactive Quantile regressions. Domestic, transnational, unclear and total terrorism dynamics are employed … investigated hypothesis, we consistently confirm that: (i) In quantiles where terrorism is found to increase (decrease) economic …
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We investigate how foreign aid dampens the effects of terrorism on FDI using interactive quantile regressions. The … used, while terrorism dynamics entail: domestic, unclear, transnational and total number of terrorist attacks. The … transnational terrorism in bilateral aid regressions, the impacts of terrorism dynamics are unexpectedly positive, in: (i) bottoms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021930
We investigate how foreign aid dampens the effects of terrorism on FDI using interactive quantile regressions. The … used, while terrorism dynamics entail: domestic, unclear, transnational and total number of terrorist attacks. The main … terrorism on FDI. The positive threshold we cannot establish is important for policy makers because it communicates a cut …
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