Note sur les comparaisons des dépenses militaires

Jacques Fontanel ()
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Jacques Fontanel: CESICE - Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble

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Abstract: Several international organisations compare the military spending of the major powers, but their results are often heterogeneous. They are particularly disputed for the Warsaw Pace countries and in most dictatorships, because of military secrecy, the difficulty of defining what belongs to the domain of national defence, but also the methods of accounting. The UN is undertaking studies both to define military expenditure by constructing a very broad matrix of states' military or paramilitary commitments and by constructing sophisticated systems of comparative indices that would replace the exchange rates generally used, despite their instability. Analysis in terms of purchasing power parities seems to be something that should be tested in the long term.

Keywords: Military spending; Comparison of military spending; Conceptualization of military spending; Purchasing power parities; Exchange rates; Comparaison des dépenses militaire; Conceptualisation des dépenses militaires; Parités de pouvoir d’achat; Taux de change; Dépenses militaires (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982-06-01
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Published in Les dépenses militaires, croissance et fluctuations économiques, Université de Dauphine-Paris, Jun 1982, Paris, France

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