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Unemployment and Violent Extremism: Evidence from Daesh Foreign Recruits

May 2, 2019

DECRG Kuala Lumpur Seminar Series

  • Transnational terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State (also known as Daesh) have shown an ability to attract radicalized individuals from many countries to join their ranks, and perpetrate attacks around the world. Using a novel data set that reports countries of residence and educational levels of a large sample of Daesh¡¯s foreign recruits, we find that a lack of economic opportunities ¨C measured by unemployment rates disaggregated by country and education level ¨C explains foreign enrollment in the terrorist organization, especially for countries that are geographically closer to the Syrian Arab Republic.

    : Seminar will be live-streamed, allowing for online audience participation (only available during the seminar) 

     

  • Quy-Toan Do is a Senior Economist in the Poverty Team of the Development Research Group. Since joining the Bank as a Young Economist in 2002, his research has focused on institutions and their relationships to economic development. In recent papers, he investigated the impact of land titling on agricultural investments and credit access; he also looked at the political economy of institutional development by investigating several mechanisms that could potentially link the distribution of wealth to the quality of institutions. He holds an MA from Ecole Polytechnique and the University of Toulouse, and a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

DETAILS

  • WHEN: Thursday, May 2, 2019; 12:30 -2:00PM
  • WHERE: World Bank Malaysia Office, Level 3, Sasana Kijang, No. 2, Jalan Dato¡¯ Onn
  • RSVP: Kindly RSVP by Wednesday, April 30, 2019