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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Tác giả chính: Clements, Benedict
Tác giả khác: Gupta, Sanjeev, Khamidova, Saida
Định dạng: Tạp chí
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Loạt:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/196
Truy cập trực tuyến:Full text available on IMF