TY  - JOUR
AB  - The question of whether military expenditures in the Third World in
general and the Middle East/South Asia region in particular have been at
the expense of national human resource development is addressed. The
findings of a cross‐sectional analysis of public sector expenditure
patterns in a large number of developing countries suggest that a simple
“guns versus education” trade‐off model is too simplistic.
Increased defence expenditures do sharply cut human resource development
in countries with particularly high military burdens, especially in the
Middle East/South Asia region. However, this negative trade‐off does not
appear to be an accurate description of the process by which resources
are allocated in the Third World in general.
VL  - 17
IS  - 10
SN  - 0306-8293
DO  - 10.1108/EUM0000000000456
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000000456
AU  - Looney Robert E.
PY  - 1990
Y1  - 1990/01/01
TI  - Defence Expenditures and Human Capital Development in the Middle East and South Asia
T2  - International Journal of Social Economics
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 4
EP  - 16
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -