"The Poverty/Terror Myth"

by Cait Murphy, Fortune, 13 March 2007

URL: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune

Abstract:

There is now robust evidence that there is no link between poverty and terrorism. That does not mean, however, that economics is irrelevant. In one study the freest countries and the most oppressed countries experienced little terrorism. It was in the middle—where politics was unsettled and evolving and governments are often weak—that suffered the most. In suicide terrorism another study argues that the bombers have made, what is for them, a rational choice. There are enough moral, psychological, and sometimes financial payoffs from the act of killing many people to offset the economic loss of their death.

Posted on 27 April 2007 @ 15:35