A Note on the International Comparison of Military Expenditures

Jacques Fontanel
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Jacques Fontanel: Centre D’Etudes de Defense et Securite Internationale

Chapter 2 in The Economics of Military Expenditures, 1987, pp 29-46 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The comparison of military expenditures raises a number of technical, economic and political difficulties.1 These are due to differing monetary units from one country to another, conceptual differences, secrecy, and the statistical difficulty of treating different kinds of armament on the same footing.

Keywords: Exchange Rate; Consumer Price Index; Government Spending; Purchasing Power Parity; Purchase Power Parity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08919-2_2

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