Military expenditures and human development: Guns and butter arguments revisited: A case study from Egypt

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https://doi.org/10.2202/1554-8597.1240

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Research Article

Publication Title

Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy

Publication Date

3-5-2011

doi

10.2202/1554-8597.1240

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 crowdingout 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. © 2011 De Gruyter. All rights reserved.

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