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) |
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| Other Authors: | Daoud, Adel (author), Fakih, Ali (author), Marrouch, Walid (author), Reinsberg, Bernhard (author) |
| Format: | article |
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2019
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| 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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