Open AccessThe Relationship of Economic Growth And Terrorism with the Human Development Index: A Causality Analysis on MENA Countries
Author(s) -
Günay Özcan,
Cigdem Karter
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
technium social sciences journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2668-7798
DOI - 10.47577/tssj.v11i1.1625
Subject(s) - causality (physics) , human development index , context (archaeology) , economics , panel analysis , terrorism , index (typography) , panel data , granger causality , development economics , human development (humanity) , affect (linguistics) , economic growth , econometrics , political science , psychology , geography , law , physics , archaeology , communication , quantum mechanics , world wide web , computer science
Examining the human development of societies is one of the important economic policy practices of recent times. Therefore, economies steer the sub-components of human development and their policies implemented by researching the factors that affect such sub-components. In this context, the aim of this study is to examine the relationship between economic growth and terrorism with human development in 12 selected MENA countries in the period of 2002-2017 by the panel causality method. The findings obtained as a result of the panel causality analysis show that both terrorism and economic growth have bidirectional causality with the human development index throughout the panel. A causality relationship has also been found in many countries on a country basis