The Peace Dividend : Military Spending Cuts and Economic Growth /
Although conventional wisdom suggests that reducing military spending may improve a country's economic growth performance, empirical studies have produced ambiguous results. This paper extends a standard growth model and estimates it using techniques that exploit both cross-section and time-ser...
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| Idioma: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
1995.
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| Series: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 1995/053 |
| Acceso en liña: | Full text available on IMF |
| Summary: | Although conventional wisdom suggests that reducing military spending may improve a country's economic growth performance, empirical studies have produced ambiguous results. This paper extends a standard growth model and estimates it using techniques that exploit both cross-section and time-series dimensions of available data to obtain consistent estimates of the growth-retarding effects of military spending via its adverse impact on capital formation and resource allocation. Model simulations suggest that a substantial long-run 'Peace Dividend'--in the form of higher capacity output--may result from: (i) markedly lower military expenditure levels achieved in most regions during the late 1980s; and (ii) further military spending cuts that would be possible in the future if a global peace could be secured. |
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| ISSN: | 1018-5941 |
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