Budgetary trade-offs of security expenditures in Turkey

Gulay Gunluk-Senesen

Defence and Peace Economics, 2002, vol. 13, issue 5, 385-403

Abstract: This paper investigates the budgetary trade-off structure of security (defence+internal security) expenditures in Turkey for the period 1983-1998. A modified version of Todaro's distributive share index of social welfare is used to quantify the impacts on the growth of primary budget expenditures of Security, Education, Health, General Administration, Infrastructure, and Social Services. We find that defence expenditures dominate overall security expenditures and are less affected in times of bottlenecks in the economy. A systematic pattern of negative budgetary trade-offs of security expenditures in terms of other components is not identified. We also analyse the expenditures of the Defence Industry Support Fund in an attempt to find the cost of the modernisation program to the economy.

Keywords: Trade-off; Turkey; Budget; Defence Expenditures; Defence Industry Support Fund (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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