IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijemec/v3y2012i1-2p58-73.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Between military spending and economic development

Author

Listed:
  • Nadine J. Ghandour
  • Mohamad Diab

Abstract

The global financial and economic crisis has resulted in many nations cutting back on all sorts of public spending, and yet military spending seems to be increasing. In fact world military expenditure is increasing tremendously in almost all world countries, even poor countries with low and middle incomes in Asia and Africa spend a great part of its national wealth to buy arms. In this paper, we study the effect of military spending on development opportunities in general; we then take a look at the military expenditure of the Gulf countries in order to have an idea about the importance of military buildup and army modernisation in Gulf countries and the differences in its spending priorities.

Suggested Citation

  • Nadine J. Ghandour & Mohamad Diab, 2012. "Between military spending and economic development," International Journal of Engineering Management and Economics, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 3(1/2), pages 58-73.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijemec:v:3:y:2012:i:1/2:p:58-73
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=48605
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijemec:v:3:y:2012:i:1/2:p:58-73. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=299 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.