Can peace be purchased? A sectoral-level analysis of aid's influence on transnational terrorism

Joseph K. Young; Michael G. Findley

doi:10.1007/s11127-011-9875-y

Can peace be purchased? A sectoral-level analysis of aid's influence on transnational terrorism

Joseph K. Young
, Michael G. Findley

Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce

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Abstract

Does foreign aid reduce terrorism? We examine whether foreign aid decreases terrorism by analyzing whether aid targeted toward certain sectors is more effective than others. We use the most comprehensive databases on foreign aid and transnational terrorism-AidData and ITERATE-to provide a series of statistical tests. Our results show that foreign aid decreases terrorism especially when targeted toward sectors, such as education, health, civil society, and conflict prevention. These sector-level results indicate that foreign aid can be an effective instrument in fighting terrorism if allocated in appropriate ways.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	365-381
Number of pages	17
Journal	Public Choice
Volume	149
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-011-9875-y
State	Published - Dec 2011

Funding

Acknowledgements We thank Zach Davis, Angela O’Neill, and Swati Sharma for helpful research assistance, as well as Axel Dreher, Amanda Licht, Todd Sandler, the participants at the 2011 Terrorism and Policy Conference, and the anonymous reviewers at Public Choice for their valuable comments. We also gratefully acknowledge grants that supported data collection and research from the National Science Foundation # 0904883, Gates Foundation, and Hewlett Foundation.

Funders	Funder number
U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China	0904883
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

Foreign aid
Panel analysis
Sectoral aid and terrorism
Transnational terrorism

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Sociology and Political Science
Economics and Econometrics

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