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Terrorism And Economic Growth. Terrorism impedes economic growth directly by damaging infrastructure incurring a loss of human capital reducing school enrolment reducing short-run commerce causing internally displaced persons IDPs and reallocating resources among others. The most obvious is the direct economic destruction of property and lives. The findings suggest that peaceful environment had a positive effect on the economic growth while terrorism had a negative effect on the economic growth. To do this a model of simultaneous equations was applied to panel data for a sample of eleven countries six developing and five developed over the.
In the war against terrorism the aim of governments is to reduce the incidence of terrorism by using counter-force in particular deterrence policy imposing negative sanctions on actual and presumptive terrorists Frey and Luechinger. In particular the transportation and tourism sectors the financial markets and the amount of foreign direct investment in a country are especially responsive to terrorist attacks. Interestingly even among these few studies there is no consensus on the relationship between economic growth and terrorism which may have dissuaded researchers from further investigating this relationship. Although terrorism can reduce a nations overall growth rate the costs of terrorism are concentrated in a few key sectors. However this comes with an economic trade-off in the form of potentially crowding out RD investments slower economic growth. Early studies that investigated the impact of terrorism on economic prosperity using the synthetic control method were confined to relatively more prosperous countries2.
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Although terrorism can reduce a nations overall growth rate the costs of terrorism are concentrated in a few key sectors. The costs of possible chemical biological. Although terrorism can reduce a nations overall growth rate the costs of terrorism are concentrated in a few key sectors. Terrorism Economic Growth Simultaneous Equations JEL Classifications. Terrorism and Economic Growth. Terrorism involve the indirect costs.