Guns and butter? Military expenditure and health spending on the eve of the Arab Spring

We examine the validity of the guns-versus-butter hypothesis in the pre-Arab Spring era. Using panel data from 1995 to 2011 – the eve of the Arab uprisings – we find no evidence that increased security needs as measured by the number of domestic terrorist attacks are complemented by increased milita...

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Main Author: Coutts, Adam (author)
Other Authors: Daoud, Adel (author), Fakih, Ali (author), Marrouch, Walid (author), Reinsberg, Bernhard (author)
Format: article
Published: 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/10795
https://doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2018.1497372
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10242694.2018.1497372
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