http://ideas.repec.org/p/ehu/dfaeii/200519.html

Summary: This website argues that terrorism should not have a large effect on economic activity, because terrorist attacks destroy only a small fraction of the stock of capital of a country (see, e.g., Becker and Murphy, 2001). In contrast, empirical estimates of the consequences of terrorism typically suggest large effects on economic outcomes (see, e.g., Abadie and Gardeazabal, 2003). The main theme of this article is that mobility of productive capital in an open economy may account for much of the difference between the direct and the equilibrium impact of terrorism. We use a simple economic model to show that terrorism may have a large impact on the allocation of productive capital across countries, even if it represents a small fraction of the overall economic risk. The model emphasizes that, in addition to increasing uncertainty, terrorism reduces the expected return to investment. As a result, changes in the intensity of terrorism may cause large movements of capital across countries if the world economy is sufficiently open, so international investors are able to diversify other types of country risks. This website provide well informations of how terrorism affect the world economy. It is well written and show clearly about the discussion. this source is accurate as the author is from Havard university. It is a research show in the university.

http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?msg=993.3&nav=messages&webtag=ab-terrorism

Summary: The Impact of the world economy due to terrorism is very big.Due to terrorism, the rate of tourism has greatly decreased. Trade between countries has also been disrupted, and thus it is reflecting a very bad status at the economy.

Till now the impact, in my opinion is still in effect, however the economy has been improving. Even so, if there is still terrorism going on, i think that chances of the economy picking up back to when there is no terrorism are slim. this website is a little different from the above as it shows different people views about impact of terrorism on world economy. At the left hand side of the website, it also have links to allow user to read up like, How to counter terrorism?, being prepared and tactics and training and & etc....

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Website: http://www.unodc.org/youthnet/youthnet_youth_drugs.html

Summary:

This website is made very simple for anyone which wants to find out about drugs and its effects in general. The first heading for this topic in this website is "What are drugs " this is very important as understanding what drugs are is fundamental to understanding their potential abuse. It then moves along and gives information about how these drugs would have effect on the human body after prelonged useage and its physical withdrawal symptoms of the various types of drugs. The website also gives updated info about drug trends around the globe, with links providing a more detailed information.

Website: http://www.drugfree.org.sg/ForTheYouths/index.asp?name=Causes%20of%20Drug%20Abuse

Summary:

This website overall has a good layout, which would futher interest youths to explore it. Like the site mentioned above this site also provides infomation about the various drugs but it also gives the abbrevations / jargons of the drug with pictures, so that one would know how it would look like. Since its a Singapore based site, the website also gives information about the penalties given if one would import/export or be caught with possession / consumsion. Another good feature about this website is that it also has a page with True stories of addicts, which would be a good source of a real account into their lives.

Done by: Foo Suan Yang

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