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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Autore principale: Knight, Malcolm
Altri autori: Loayza, Norman, Villanueva, Delano
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1995.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1995/053
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF
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