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Education, Poverty and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?
Place of publication | Year of publication | Collation: 
USA | 2003 |
Author: 
Alan B. Krueger; Jitka Maleckova
Corporate author: 
Journal of Economic Perspective
Region: 
Arab States

In the authors' view, any connection between poverty, education and terrorism is indirect, complicated and probably quite weak. Instead of viewing terrorism as a direct response to low market opportunities or ignorance, the article suggests it is more accurately viewed as a response to political conditions and long-standing feelings of indignity and frustration that have little to do with economics.

Resource Type: 
Research papers / journal articles
Theme: 
Civic / Citizenship / Democracy
Preventing violent extremism / genocide
Level of education: 
Higher education
Other
Keywords: 
educational policy