Military Spending in Developing Countries
1st Edition
Published on 15. April 1997
231 pages
978-0-7735-8309-2 (ISBN)
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Government agencies are increasingly apprehensive about the scale of military spending in Africa and the Middle East - particularly incountries where they are providing development assistance. This study argues that certain countries overspend on their military forces to the detriment of more productive social or economic programs.
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Brian S. MacDonald
Military Spending in Developing Countries
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Queen's School of Policy Studies
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Acronyms
- 1 The Conceptual Model: The Purpose of Military Forces
- 2 Modelling Issues
- 3 Northwest Africa
- Case Study 1: Morocco
- 4 West Africa
- Case Study 2: Burkina Faso
- Case Study 3: Mali
- 5 Central Africa
- Case Study 4: Cameroon
- 6 Southern Africa
- Case Study 5: Zambia
- Case Study 6: Zimbabwe
- 7 Eastern Africa
- Case Study 7: Tanzania
- Case Study 8: Kenya
- 8 The Middle East
- Case Study 9: Jordan
- Case Study 10: Egypt
- 9 Determining the Extent of Military Overspending
- Appendix 1 - National Development Tasks: Canadian Defence Structure Review of 1975
- Appendix 2 - United Nations Centre for Disarmament: Defence Expenditures Disaggregation Model
- Appendix 3 - African Debtors to the Former Soviet Union
- Appendix 4 - NATO Distribution of Defence Expenditures by Category: Average 1985-89
- Appendix 5 - Distribution of Canadian Military Personnel by Military Occupation Codes (MOCs) 1994
- Appendix 6 - Partial Correlation Analysis: Military Imports/Military Expenditures
- Appendix 7 - Social and Socioeconomic Militarization: Praetorian and Spartan Indices (1990-94 Means)
- Appendix 8 - Financial Militarization ME/GNP and ME/CGE
- Appendix 9 - Military Capabilities (1996-97)
- Sources
