The Size of Terror Organizations: Poverty and Economic Inequality as Mobilizing Forces

Goldman, Ogen S.; Noy, Smadar

doi:10.1080/1057610x.2020.1711605

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“…Using a battery of estimators, they find that higher levels of income inequality are associated with more domestic terrorism. Goldman and Noy (2020) uncover the relationship between poverty, economic inequality, and the joining of terror organizations. Using binary logistic regressions, they find no significant and robust relationship between poverty, economic inequality, and the number of people who joined the terror groups.…”

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“…However, the empirical validation between inequality and terrorism appears to be sparse to date. To the best of our knowledge, the few documented attempts include studies such as Piazza (2006), Derin-Gure and Elveren (2014), Krieger and Meierrieks (2019), and Goldman and Noy (2020). Piazza (2006) evaluated if poverty, inequality, and poor economic development are the root causes of terrorism across a panel of 96 countries between 1986 and 2002.…”

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Does Disparity in Income and Consumption Ever Incite Terrorism in Africa?

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2021

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Does disparity in income and consumption incite terrorism in Africa? To answer this important question, we investigate the empirical linkages between inequality and terrorism by separately regressing income and consumption inequalities on four indicators of terrorism: domestic, transnational, unclear, and total over the period 1980–2012. Employing a negative binomial regression across a panel dataset covering 46 African economies, the following findings are established. First, both income and consumption inequalities have decreasing impacts on all terrorism measures—with the exception of uncertain terrorism (the impact of which is negligible). Second, both income and consumption inequalities exert more statistical influence on transnational terrorism than domestic terrorism. Third, income inequality exerts more statistical weight on terrorism measures than consumption inequality across the model specifications. Last, the non-trivial impact of confounding variables—such as the lagged value of terrorism, surface areas, and conflicts—are validated across the terrorism models. In line with these empirical outcomes, policy implications and suggestions for further studies are offered.

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confidence: 99%