02174cas a2200349 a 4500 AALejournalIMF021097 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513550275 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Barrett, Philip. Measuring Social Unrest Using Media Reports / Philip Barrett, Maximiliano Appendino, Kate Nguyen, Jorge de Leon Miranda. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020. 1 online resource (87 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students We present a new index of social unrest based on counts of relevant media reports. The index consists of individual monthly time series for 130 countries, available with almost no lag, and can be easily and transparently replicated. Spikes in the index identify major events, which correspond very closely to event timelines from external sources for four major regional waves of social unrest. We show that the cross-sectional distribution of the index can be simply and precisely characterized, and that social unrest is associated with a 3 percentage point increase in the frequency of social unrest domestically and a 1 percent increase in neighbors in the next six months. Despite this, social unrest is not a better predictor of future social unrest than the country average rate. Mode of access: Internet Appendix E imf Arabic Language imf Political Science imf Social Unrest imf WP imf Thailand imf Appendino, Maximiliano. de Leon Miranda, Jorge. Nguyen, Kate. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/129 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2020/129/001.2020.issue-129-en.xml IMF e-Library