controlling for age dependency, number of police (and security) officers, per capita economic prosperity, educational level and …

demonstrations and terrorism. The effects of these drivers are contingent on initial levels of access to weapons. Policy …

The study investigates the role of security officers and the police in dampening the effect of insecurity on homicides … Negative Binomial regressions. Three main findings are established. First , security officers and the police significantly … thresholds suggest that a maximum deployment of security officers and the police is required in order to completely cancel out …

This paper provides a systematic review of challenges to doing business in Africa. It complements the extant literature … by answering two critical questions: what are the linkages between the ease of doing business and economic development …; and what are the challeng es to doing business in Africa? In providing answers to the se questions, the nexus between the …

In spite of the growing consensus of the need to utilise military expenditure to help combat terrorism, our … understanding of the threshold at which military expenditure reduces the effect of terrorism stemming from capital flight remains … terrorism, 5.734 to 7.363 for unclear terrorism and 4.710 to 6.617 for total terrorism. No thresholds are apparent in …

We assess the effects of terrorism on capital flight in a panel of 29 African countries for which data is available for … the period 1987-2008. The terrorism dynamics entail domestic, transnational, unclear and total terrorisms. The empirical … capital flight. Second, for QR, with the exception of transnational terrorism for which a positive effect on capital flight is …

terrorism from a panel of 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. The following main findings are established. First …, it is primarily in the countries with the highest level of iron ore exports that terrorism affects exports. Second … that foreign aid can be used to mitigate a potentially negative effect of terrorism on resource exports. The results …

This study examines the role of globalization on terrorism in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011. Four … terrorism indicators are used, namely: domestic, transnational, unclear and total terrorism. Political, economic, social and … established from GMM estimations. Political globalisation increases both domestic and transnational terrorism. Social …

We investigate how foreign aid dampens the effects of terrorism on FDI using interactive quantile regressions. The … used, while terrorism dynamics entail: domestic, unclear, transnational and total number of terrorist attacks. The main … terrorism on FDI. The positive threshold we cannot establish is important for policy makers because it communicates a cut …