Corruption and military spending

European Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 749-777

  Gupta, Sanjeev ^a   De Mello, Luiz ^a   Sharan, Raju ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Corruption; H10; H56; H57; Military spending; Panel data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000810514     PISSN: 01762680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0176-2680(01)00054-4     Document Type: Article

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