WORKING PAPER SERIES POVERTY, POLITICAL FREEDOM, AND THE ROOTS OF TERRORISM

summary;NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES POVERTY, POLITICAL FREEDOM, AND THE ROOTS OF TERRORISM Alberto Abadie Working Paper 10859 http://www.nber.org/papers/w10859 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 October 2004 summarize the uploaded article.  divide the summary into sections or subtitles NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES POVERTY, POLITICAL FREEDOM, AND THE ROOTS OF TERRORISM Alberto Abadie Working Paper 10859 http://www.nber.org/papers/w10859 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 October 2004 I thank Alan Krueger, David Laitin, Todd Olmstead, and Richard Zeckhauser for comments and suggestions. Financial support for this research was generously provided through NSF grant SES-0350645. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the National Bureau of Economic Research. ©2004 by Alberto Abadie. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source. Poverty, Political Freedom, and the Roots of Terrorism Alberto Abadie NBER Working Paper No. 1085 October 2004 JEL No. D74, K42, H56 ABSTRACT