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regard to political governance), terrorism sustains the addiction to capital flight in above-median governance sub …This inquiry assesses if terrorism sustains the capital flight trap and whether the relationship is affected by varying … the levels of governance and globalisation. The empirical evidence is based on interactive Generalised Method of Moments …
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spatial resolution of 0.5o x 0.5o for all Africa over 1997-2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a …-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by …
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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 … capital flight. Second, for QR, with the exception of transnational terrorism for which a positive effect on capital flight is …
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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 …
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This article examines the structural and spatial organization of violent extremist organizations (VEOs) across the Sahara. Building on the Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset (ACLED), a public collection of political violence data for developing states, the article investigates structural...
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This paper considers the extent to which terrorism in Africa and South Asia is an economic good that can be explained … Africa and South Asia. If for example, terrorism is motivated largely by existential other-worldly goals, standard security … terrorism in Africa and South Asia utilizes data from the University of Maryland National Consortium for The Study of Terrorism …
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This paper considers the extent to which terrorism in Africa and South Asia is an economic good that can be explained … Africa and South Asia. If for example, terrorism is motivated largely by existential other-worldly goals, standard security … terrorism in Africa and South Asia utilizes data from the University of Maryland National Consortium for The Study of Terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097038
In conflict zones around the world, both state and non-state actors deliver governance at local levels. This paper … explores the long-term impact of individual exposure to 'wartime governance' on social and political behaviour. We … operationalize wartime governance as the local policy choices and practices of a ruling actor. Building on detailed ethnographic and …
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. In sub-Saharan Africa, only trade openness effectively moderates governance to induce an overall positive effect on ICT …The present study assesses how governance affects information and communication technology at the global level … generalised method of moments. The following main findings are established. For the full sample, governance unconditionally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549413
. In sub-Saharan Africa, only trade openness effectively moderates governance to induce an overall positive effect on ICT …The present study assesses how governance affects information and communication technology at the global level … generalised method of moments. The following main findings are established. For the full sample, governance unconditionally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014312043