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contribution in Iraq, and relative share of Muslim population. We find that any major changes in aid allocation related to the GWOT … strategic allies in the GWOT, perhaps at the expense of anti-poverty programs. In this paper we assess changes in country … the GWOT, including the presence of foreign terrorist groups, sharing a border with a state sponsor of terrorism, troop …
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transnational terrorism. What conditions motivate these terrorist activities? Are there specific characteristics in the terrorists … home countries that provide a breeding ground for anti-US terrorism? In particular, we ask whether oppressive and bad … oppressiveness and US closeness are important determinants of anti-US terrorism. Furthermore, both effects do not seem completely …
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To address security concerns, governments often implement trade barriers and restrictions on the movement of goods and people. These restrictions have negative economic consequences, possibly increasing the supply of political violence. To test this hypothesis, we exploit the restrictions...
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To address security concerns, governments often implement trade barriers and restrictions on the movement of goods and people. These restrictions have negative economic consequences, possibly increasing the supply of political violence. To test this hypothesis, we exploit the restrictions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670900
The jihadist group formerly known as ISIS, which already controls vast areas of Syria and Iraq, has recently proclaimed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833969
This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries and their high-income trade partners between 1995...
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We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment …, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone strikes are suggested to encourage terrorism …
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citizens of a particular country in a given year. -- causes of terrorism ; poverty and terrorism ; panel estimations ; extreme …We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three … most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i …
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We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three … most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i …
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We examine the impact of terrorism on social capital by exploiting variation in the 2014 European Social Survey …
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