The Military Burden, Economic Growth, and the Human Suffering Index: Evidence from the LDCs

Peter N Hess

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1989, vol. 13, issue 4, 497-515

Abstract: A three-equation, simultaneous model for the military burden, economic growth, and a human suffering index is estimated for a cross-section of developing nations for the period 1973-84. Findings of the study include the sensitivity of the regression estimates to the particular constellation of nations in the sample; the relative importance of strategic and political determinants and the relative unimportance of economic determinants of the military burden; and support for the basic needs approach to alleviating poverty and human suffering in the contemporary developing nations. Copyright 1989 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 1989
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