Can peace be purchased? A sectoral-level analysis of aid’s influence on transnational terrorism

Young, Joseph K.; Findley, Michael G.

doi:10.1007/s11127-011-9875-y

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“…The host country has no incentive to completely disarm the rebels, knowing that the end of conflict means the end of aid. Young and Findley (2011) support the argument that aid reduces conflict, but fungibility of aid and rent seeking makes aid ineffective. It is the prize money for capturing the state.…”

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confidence: 64%

“…These authors (Azam and Delacroix 2006;Thelen 2008, 2010;Bapat 2011, Nielsen et al 2011Ree and Nillesen 2009;Young and Findley 2011) find a negative relationship between aid and transnational conflict and prescribe more aid as a means to reducing conflict. Thelen (2008, 2010) developed a model that aid is money given for protecting the economic and strategic interests of the donor, as Western democracies are the main target of the terrorists.…”

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Does aid cause conflict in Pakistan?

Tahir

2015

Defence and Peace Economics

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This study provides evidence from Pakistan on how the delegated task of achieving strategic objectives of the donor can lead to incompatibility of aid objectives which then generates perpetual and multidimensional domestic conflict in the recipient society. We use count data method to estimate the relationship between aid and conflict. At the aggregate level, social sector spending, regime change and youth bulge are positively and significantly related with conflict. However, aid per capita gives ambiguous results. It is significant with conflict count in the terrorism data-set and insignificant for data on armed conflict. Inclusion of youth bulge and unemployment rate confirms the marginalization hypothesis of conflict. Inflation rate and the tax variables are insignificant. This confirms that aid erodes fiscal capacity. At project-level data, conflict is strongly related with aid commitment and purpose. Discrepancy in aid allocation and commitment may accentuate conflict.

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Does aid cause conflict in Pakistan?

Tahir

2015

Defence and Peace Economics

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“…Indeed, aid budgets overall increased among 22 donor countries since the start of the War on Terror (Dreher and Fuchs, 2011), and aid allocation decisions changed during this period after controlling for natural disasters, recipient country size, recipient country movement to democracy, and U.N. votes. Young and Findley (2011) find that targeted (conditional) aid can be an effective tool to deter terrorism, especially when directed at education, health, civil society, and conflict prevention in the recipient country.…”

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Donor Motives for Foreign Aid

Bandyopadhyay¹,

Vermann²

2013

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“…Ultimately, this is an empirical question. Fourth, our study has a rich set of controls, which include interstate and intrastate wars, a globalization index, physical integrity rights, FDI as a share of gross domestic product (GDP), Trade/GDP, and Aid/GDP (see Campos and Gassebner, 2013;Gassebner and Luechinger, 2011;Piazza, 2011;Young and Findley, 2011). Fifth, we test and control for some endogeneity concerns.…”

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“…Regional dummies have been used in other studies of terrorism since some regions face a greater terrorist threat than others (e.g. Blomberg et al, 2011;Young and Dugan, 2011;Young and Findley, 2011).…”

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Remittances and terrorism: A global analysis

Mascarenhas

Sandler

2013

Defence and Peace Economics

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This paper is the first global investigation of the relationship between remittances and terrorism. To discern this relationship, we draw terrorism event data from the Global Terrorism Database and International Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorism Events. When a host of standard terrorism controls is employed, lagged remittances as a share of gross domestic product have a positive and significant impact on both domestic and transnational terrorist attacks. For the venue country's viewpoint, lagged remittances have a greater marginal impact on domestic than on transnational terrorism. However, when we investigate remittances to the home country of the perpetrator, lagged remittances have the greatest marginal impact on transnational terrorism. Throughout our investigation, standard terrorism controls perform according to our priors and those of the literature, lending credence to the isolation of the impact of remittances. We also account for endogeneity concerns.

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Can peace be purchased? A sectoral-level analysis of aid’s influence on transnational terrorism

Abstract: Foreign aid, Sectoral aid and terrorism, Transnational terrorism, Panel analysis, F35, D74,

Cited by 56 publications

References 66 publications

Does aid cause conflict in Pakistan?

Does aid cause conflict in Pakistan?

Donor Motives for Foreign Aid

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