Terror Debate

Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Terrorism Not Correlated to Poverty

An associate professor at Harvard apparently has examined domestic and international terror incidents and has this to say about the data:

"In the past, we heard people refer to the strong link between terrorism and poverty, but in fact when you look at the data, it's not there. This is true not only for events of international terrorism, as previous studies have shown, but perhaps more surprisingly also for the overall level of terrorism, both of domestic and of foreign origin," Abadie said.

Unfortunately, the article in the Harvard Gazette doesn't have a link to his research or the data.