Terrorism not linked to poverty

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:51:57 GMT

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A comprehensive study of 1,776 terrorist incidents (240 international, the rest domestic) by Harvard professor Albert Abadie, who was sympathetic to the poverty-terrorism idea at first, found no such thing. "When you look at the data," he told the Harvard Gazette, "it's not there."

Education, Poverty, Political Violence and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:56:57 GMT

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A recent study at Princeton University by Alan Krueger and Jitka Maleckova, called "Education, Poverty, Political Violence and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?" argues this point. The paper was scheduled for presentation at the World Bank's annual conference in Washington in April but was pulled from presentation in response to complaints initiated by a Kuwaiti executive director

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Terrorism not linked to poverty

Education, Poverty, Political Violence and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?