For a long time, international relations scholars
have been discussing the causes of terrorism. One of the idea
raised as a result of these discussions is poverty.
According to scholars such as Krueger and Maleckova (2003),
there is a connection between poverty and terrorism. They support that there is
a positive correlation between poverty and terrorism. According to Krueger and
Maleckova (2003), if poverty is decreased, terrorism also will be decreased.
As a result of these researches, it was decided to investigate
this subject in more detail. A data set was prepared in this direction. This
data set included global hunger index, number of terrorist attacks, poverty and
inequality numbers.
We
got the global hunger index data from unicef, poverty and inequality from World
bank and number of terrorist attacks from START.
There are 3 variables in
this research. These variables are number of terrorist attacks in the World,
global hunger index and poverty less than 1.90 usd.
Dependent
variable:
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Attack
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Hunger
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4.413
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(3.859)
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Constant
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30.843
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(94.052)
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Observations
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69
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R2
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0.019
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Adjusted R2
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0.005
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Residual Std. Error
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371.463 (df = 67)
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F Statistic
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1.308 (df = 1; 67)
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Note:
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*p<0.1; **p<0.05; ***p<0.01
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As could be seen, there is no significant relation between our variables. Linear regression analysis also confirmed the correlation analysis. As can be seen, there is no correlation between terrorism and poverty and hunger. This result is different from many sources in the literature.
REFERENCE:
Krueger, A., & Malečková, J. (2003). Education, Poverty and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection? The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 17(4), 119-144. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3216934
