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Determining Military Expenditures: Arms Races and Spill-Over Effects in Cross-Section and Panel Data [PDF]
, 2009 This paper considers the determinants of military spending, building on an emerging literature that estimates military expenditure demand functions in cross-section and panel data, incorporating ‘arms-race’ type effects.
J Paul Dunne +2 more
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The demand for military spending in Latin American countries
Latin American Economic Review, 2018 The allocation of resources to defence and national security is influenced by several factors, both domestic and external. Empirical findings suggest that military spending is determined by economic, strategic, political, and security factors.
Christos Kollias +3 more
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Worldwide Military Spending, 1990-1995
IMF Working Papers, 1996 The decline in military spending that began in the mid-1980s continued through 1995, and this decline was widespread both geographically and by level of development. Cuts in military spending appear to have potentially important implications for nonmilitary spending and fiscal adjustment.
Jerald A Schiff +2 more
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Military Spending and Economic Growth [PDF]
This paper proposes to test the relationship between military expenditure and economic growth by including the impact of the share of military and civilian components of government expenditure in an economic growth model with endogenous technology.
Luca Pieroni
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From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
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The Effect of Military Spending on Economic Growth in the Presence of Arms Trade: A Global Analysis
Social Science Research Network, 2019 Military spending is not considered a productive activity that can contribute positively to GDP, however It effect indirectly through decreasing the risk and provide stability, moreover since its considered a major expenditure in many countries, it could
Taimur Rahman, D. Siddiqui
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Using stock returns to identify government spending shocks [PDF]
, 2009 This paper explores a new approach to identifying government spending shocks which avoids many of the shortcomings of existing approaches. The new approach is to identify government spending shocks with statistical innovations to the accumulated excess ...
Berndt +20 more
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Tourism, Democracy and Economic Growth in Africa
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While numerous studies have explored the determinants of economic growth, research on the impact of tourism and democracy on economic growth remains debated in both developed and developing countries. Furthermore, studies examining the moderating role of democracy in the tourism–economic growth relationship are particularly scarce.
Toyo A. M. Dossou +3 more
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Effects of Defense Spending on Economic Growth and Its Indirect Effects on Private Consumption in Iran: A Supply Side Approach [PDF]
پژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2008 Defense industry plays an important and strategic function in economy. Defense industry effects economy mainly through security and weapon exports. There has been a growing literature examining military expenditures in developing countries. Theoretically,
Mohammad Hossein Hassani Sadrabadi +1 more
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Les dépenses militaires : la fin des cycles ?
Revue Interventions Économiques, 2010 This article traces the progression of the most recent cycle of world military spending (1989-2010), highlighting both economic and industrial phenomena that made it distinct.
Yves Bélanger, Aude Fleurant
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