Poverty and Unemployment as Factors of Terrorism

Relative Deprivation Theory in Terrorism: A Study of Higher Education and Unemployment as Predictors of Terrorism

What country conditions breed terrorism? Relative deprivation theory holds that instead of an absolute standard of deprivation, a gap between expected and achieved welfare leads men to political violence. My research examines whether levels of unemployment and higher education that reflect relative deprivation correspond with an increase in terrorist attacks. A recent surge in empirical studies...

The Nonlinear Relationship Between Terrorism and Poverty Byline: Poverty and Terrorism

The Nonlinear Relationship Between Terrorism and Poverty Byline: Poverty and Terrorism Walter Enders and Gary A. Hoover The fact that most terrorist attacks are staged in low income countries seems to support the notion that poverty causes terrorism. Certainly, economic theory suggests that it would be easier for a terrorist group to recruit low-income or unemployed individuals since they have ...

Massive Unemployment and Rural Poverty

Does Lower Unemployment Reduce Poverty ?

s the link between unemployment and poverty as strong as many people think it is? Possibly not. How strong the link is depends critically on how we measure poverty. And during the past two decades, researchers have identified numerous shortcomings in the government’s official procedures for determining the extent of poverty. In this article, Bob DeFina presents empirical evidence that improved ...

The Nonlinear Relationship Between Terrorism and Poverty

It is tempting to argue that poor economic circumstances are a precursor to terrorist activities. After all, economic theory suggests that it would be easier for a terrorist group to recruit lowincome or unemployed individuals since they have a relatively low opportunity cost of time. Moreover, as argued by Crenshaw (1981), people who believe that their economic prospects have been limited by o...