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What Explains the Flow of Foreign Fighters to Isis?

Benmelech, Efraim - 2016

This paper provides the first systematic analysis of the link between economic, political, and social conditions and the global phenomenon of ISIS foreign fighters. We find that poor economic conditions do not drive participation in ISIS. In contrast, the number of ISIS foreign fighters is...

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Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency and Unemployment in Iraq and the Philippines

Berman, Eli - 2010

test that prediction in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Philippines, using survey data on unemployment and two newly …

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Modest, Secure and Informed : Successful Development in Conflict Zones

Berman, Eli - 2013

data on development spending in Iraq, we show that violence reducing effects of aid are greater when (a) projects are small …

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Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq

Berman, Eli; Shapiro, Jacob N.; Felter, Joseph - 2021

from Iraq on violence against Coalition and Iraqi forces, reconstruction spending, and community characteristics (sectarian …

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The Importance of Psychology in Economic Activity : Evidence from Terrorist Attacks

Ahern, Kenneth R. - 2018

terrorism on economics and psychology is difficult because institutions also change in response to terrorist attacks. This paper … exposed to the attacks. I find that terrorism leads to declines in trust, subjective well-being, and the importance of … creativity and freedom. However, at the macro-level, terrorism leads to increases in economic output and household income. These …

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The Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive States

Acemoglu, Daron - 2017

Societies under similar geographic and economic conditions and subject to similar external influences nonetheless develop very different types of states. At one extreme are weak states with little capacity and ability to regulate economic or social relations. At the other are despotic states...

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Israel and the 1990-2015 Global Developments : Riding with the Global Flows and Weathering the Storms

Razin, Assaf - 2016

The global economy has been buffeted by several unprecedented economic events during the past 35 years. We survey the impact of these events on Israel's development, institutions, and economic policies. Israel had a remarkable development during this time, from a low income high-inflation...

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The Monetary and Fiscal History of Bolivia, 1960–2017

Kehoe, Timothy Jerome - 2019

After the economic reforms that followed the National Revolution of the 1950s, Bolivia seemed positioned for sustained growth. Indeed, it achieved unprecedented growth from 1960 to 1977. The rapid accumulation of debt due to persistent deficits and a fixed exchange rate policy during the 1970s...

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Sudden Stop, Financial Factors and Economic Collpase in Latin America : Learning from Argentina and Chile

Calvo, Guillermo A.; Talvi, Ernesto - 2021

This paper shows that the Russian 1998 crisis had a big impact on capital flows to Emerging Market Economies, EMs, especially in Latin America, and that the impact of the Russian shock differs quite markedly across EMs. To illustrate this statement, we compare the polar cases of Chile and...

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Latin American Economic Development : 1950-1980

Cardoso, Eliana A.; Fishlow, Albert - 2021

The paper stresses the evolutionary and adaptive experience of Latin American growth between 1950 and 1980, and provides a synthetic view by considering the sources of growth within a simple production framework. Regressions use quinquennial panel data for 18 Latin American countries.They...

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