{"id":12637,"date":"2015-12-01T02:32:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T07:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=12637"},"modified":"2015-12-01T02:32:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T07:32:18","slug":"its-not-poverty-in-the-middle-east-thats-driving-terrorism-its-the-politics-quartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/01\/its-not-poverty-in-the-middle-east-thats-driving-terrorism-its-the-politics-quartz\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not poverty in the Middle East that\u2019s driving terrorism\u2014it\u2019s the politics | Quartz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/561848\/its-not-the-poverty-in-the-middle-east-thats-driving-terrorism-its-the-politics\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepatientinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/isil-convoy.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From Tim Fernholz:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;.empirical studies suggest that poverty and inequality aren\u2019t behind terror attacks. In the wake of the 9\/11 attacks, Alan Krueger, the Princeton economist and future Obama administration official, examined databases of terror attacks to identify trends among the participants. Surprisingly, he found most were well-educated and not poor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.Later studies confirmed these effects: A 2006 study (pdf) using a broader time range also found that poor countries did not produce more terrorists. By 2007, Krueger had also looked at 311 foreign combatants captured by the US in Iraq, and concluded \u201cthat countries with a higher GDP per capita were actually more likely to have their citizens involved in the insurgency than were poorer countries.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/561848\/its-not-the-poverty-in-the-middle-east-thats-driving-terrorism-its-the-politics\/\">It\u2019s not the poverty in the Middle East that\u2019s driving terrorism\u2014it\u2019s the politics &#8211; Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Tim Fernholz: &#8230;.empirical studies suggest that poverty and inequality aren\u2019t behind terror attacks. In the wake of the 9\/11 attacks, Alan Krueger, the Princeton economist and future Obama administration official, examined databases of terror attacks to identify trends among the participants. Surprisingly, he found most were well-educated and not poor. &#8230;.Later studies confirmed these &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/01\/its-not-poverty-in-the-middle-east-thats-driving-terrorism-its-the-politics-quartz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It\u2019s not poverty in the Middle East that\u2019s driving terrorism\u2014it\u2019s the politics | Quartz&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stock-markets"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>It\u2019s not poverty in the Middle East that\u2019s driving terrorism\u2014it\u2019s the politics | Quartz - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It\u2019s not poverty in the Middle East that\u2019s driving terrorism\u2014it\u2019s the politics | Quartz - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From Tim Fernholz: &#8230;.empirical studies suggest that poverty and inequality aren\u2019t behind terror attacks. 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