Military Expenditures and Human Development: Guns and Butter Arguments Revisited: A Case Study from Egypt

Ali Hamid E. ()
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Ali Hamid E.: American University in Cairo

Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, 2011, vol. 17, issue 1, 21

Abstract: This study theoretically and empirically tests the relationship between military spending and social spending in Egypt using data from 1987–2005. The theoretical results show that the crowding-out of social spending is ambiguous, unless the government is fully allocating its tax receipts to the military. The crowding-out of social spending by military spending lacks theoretical and empirical justification.

Keywords: military spending; inequality; human development; Egypt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.2202/1554-8597.1240

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