Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/227962 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/19/084
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
This study examines policy tools in the fight against terrorism when existing levels of terrorism matter in 53 African countries for the period 1998-2012. The empirical evidence is based on contemporary, non-contemporary and Instrumental Variable Quantile regressions (QR) which enable the investigation throughout the conditional distributions of domestic, transnational and total terrorism dynamics. The following findings are established. First, counterterrorism policy instruments of inclusive human development and military expenditure further fuel terrorim. Second, political stability negatively affects terrorism with a negative threshold effect. Political stability estimates are consistently significant with increasing negative magnitudes throughout the conditional distributions of domestic and total terrorism. Policy implications are discussed.
Subjects: 
Terrorism
Inclusive development
Political stability
Military expenditure
Africa
JEL: 
C52
D74
F42
O16
O38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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