Income inequality, human capital and terrorism in Africa: Beyond exploratory analytics

Ajide, Kazeem Bello; Alimi, Olorunfemi Yasiru

doi:10.1016/j.inteco.2021.01.003

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“…This result could be ascribed to high levels of graduate unemployment in Africa, which leaves graduate with no other options than to settle for low-paid or precarious jobs. This finding is consistent with Ajide and Alimi (2021) who used three school enrolment indicators, namely primary school enrolment, secondary enrolment and tertiary school enrolment as proxy of human capital and found that education contributes to increasing income inequality African. Further, we find that ICT diffusion has a negative and statistically significant effect on income inequality.…”

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Towards the quest to reduce income inequality in Africa: is there a synergy between tourism development and governance?

Ofori

Dossou

Akadırı³

2022

Current Issues in Tourism

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Despite the growing attention on the tourism development-income inequality nexus, a conspicuous gap in the literature is that rigorous empirical works examining how good governance moderates the relationship is hard to find. Anchoring on the trickle-down theory and the tourism-led growth hypothesis, this study fills this void in the literature based on data for 48 African countries for the period 1996 -2020. We provide strong evidence robust to several specifications from the GMM estimator to show that, though unconditionally both tourism development and governance reduce income inequality in Africa, the effect of the former is amplified in the presence of quality economic, political and institutional governance.Particularly, we find that control of corruption and political are keys for propelling Africa's tourism sector contribute to policymakers' quest of fostering shared prosperity in the continent.Policy recommendations are provided in line with SDG 10 and Aspiration 1 and 3 of Africa's Agenda 2063.

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Towards the quest to reduce income inequality in Africa: is there a synergy between tourism development and governance?

Ofori

Dossou

Akadırı³

2022

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…However, social discord truly reached its climax in January 2021 when Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to prevent the confirmation of Joe Biden’s election victory. Unfortunately, these tumultuous times are unlikely to go away anytime soon as growing economic inequalities and climate change exacerbate existing intergroup conflict and social tension (Ajide & Alimi, 2021; Bartusevicius et al, 2021; Helman & Zaitchik, 2020; Krieger & Meierrieks, 2019). In this context, it is imperative for psychological science to investigate what fuels political violence.…”

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The dark tetrad personality traits moderate the relationship between ideological passion and violent activism.

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Alkindi³

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Psychology of Violence

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Objective: This research examines the interface between ideological passion and the dark tetrad personality traits to predict violent (vs. peaceful) political activism. Meta-analytic research shows that ideological obsessive passion (OP) is one of the strongest psychological factors associated with violent activism. Here, we examine whether this relationship is magnified by the dark tetrad (i.e., Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and sadism), which have often been associated with antisocial behavior. Method: In Studies 1A-C, the interaction between ideological passion and the dark tetrad was tested cross-sectionally with three distinct ideological groups, namely, Democrats (N = 566), Republicans (N = 479), and Black Lives Matter supporters (N = 204). In Study 2, we tested the same model using an experimental manipulation of obsessive (vs. harmonious) passion in a sample of environmentalists (N = 233). Results: In Studies 1A-C, the relationship between OP and violent activism was systematically accentuated by sadism. Of note, these effects were specific to violent activism and unrelated to peaceful activism. In Study 2, we replicated these findings and showed that the relationship between sadism and violent activism was significant when individuals were in an obsessively (but not harmoniously) passionate mindset. Conclusion: These results shed light on the interplay between motivation and personality traits to predict violent activism.

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“…Typically, for economic causes, Krieger and Meierrieks ( 2019 ) found that the higher income inequality level caused worse institutional corruption and more domestic terrorist activity. Ajide and Alimi ( 2021 ) found income inequality, human capital, and educational attainment have impact on terrorism. Bagchi and Paul ( 2018 ) found youth unemployment tends to increase domestic terrorism while may not effect the transnational terrorism.…”

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The Tendency of Terrorist Organizations to Explosive Attacks: An Institutional Theory Perspective

Luo

Chen

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Focusing on the tendency of terrorist organizations to explosive attack, this article applied the institutional theory as the basis to explain the inherent logic of attack type similarity from the perspective of mimetic, coercive, and normative isomorphism. Subsequently, the study conducted an empirical analysis of the data onto 1825 terrorist organizations recorded in the Global Terrorism Database with the logistic regression method. The results show that: (1) Terrorist organizations will learn from pre-existing terrorist organizations' experiences, and mimetic isomorphism will promote explosive tendency; (2) Due to the normative isomorphism effect, terrorist groups' tendency to explosive attacks is weakened by their increased duration; (3) If terrorist organizations are hostile to a strong government, coercive isomorphism positively moderates the negative effects of increasing duration. The study suggests that counter-terrorism approaches such as destroying the learnable experience of attacks, addressing the root causes of terrorism, and maintaining a strong government may be helpful in stopping increasing terrorist activities, which is essential for reducing terrorist organizations' vivosphere, blocking the inter-flow and imitation between terrorist organizations, and ultimately interrupting the terrorist propagation chain.

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Income inequality, human capital and terrorism in Africa: Beyond exploratory analytics

Cited by 24 publications

References 65 publications

Towards the quest to reduce income inequality in Africa: is there a synergy between tourism development and governance?

Towards the quest to reduce income inequality in Africa: is there a synergy between tourism development and governance?

The dark tetrad personality traits moderate the relationship between ideological passion and violent activism.

The Tendency of Terrorist Organizations to Explosive Attacks: An Institutional Theory Perspective

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