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Terrorist Funding and Mobilization : How Do Remittances and Economic Ineguality Impact the Occurence of terrorist Events?

Løvlien, Eline Drury
Master thesis
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Date
2014
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Abstract
There are few studies done on the use of remittances to finance terrorism. Remittances

have previously been seen in connection with development policies but have in recent years been

linked to funding of terrorist groups. The main objective of this study is to identify the

relationship between remittances, economic inequality and terrorist events. Using remittance data

from the World Bank the thesis aims to study how remittances, as well as underlying economic

inequality might impact the occurrence of terrorist events. Using count data on domestic terrorist

events and transnational terrorist events (by perpetrators country of origin) and applying negative

binomial regression we study how remittances and economic inequality influence the occurrence

of terrorist events. The findings support some of the hypotheses. There exists a relationship

between increased transnational terrorism and remittance inflows, even when controlling for

economic inequality. Contrary to previous studies no significant relationship can be found

between domestic terrorism and remittance inflows. Vertical inequality, in the form of economic

inequality, is significant across all domestic and transnational models. There are clear indications

that the relationship between remittances and transnational terrorism warrants further study
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