Is Military Spending Converging Across Countries? : An Examination of Trends and Key Determinants /

This paper studies the evolution of worldwide military spending during 1970-2018. It finds that military spending in relation to GDP is converging, but into three separate groups of countries. In the largest group, responsible for 90 percent of worldwide spending, outlays have remained stubbornly hi...

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מחבר ראשי: Clements, Benedict
מחברים אחרים: Gupta, Sanjeev, Khamidova, Saida
פורמט: כתב-עת
שפה:English
יצא לאור: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
סדרה:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/196
גישה מקוונת:Full text available on IMF