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Freedom squelches terrorism

From Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government comes another study showing that poverty doesn’t cause terrorism: "In the past, we heard people refer to the strong link between terrorism and poverty, but in fact when you…

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From Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government comes another study showing that poverty doesn’t cause terrorism:

"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.

Instead, Abadie detected a peculiar relationship between the levels of political freedom a nation affords and the severity of terrorism.

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