Military spending, the peace dividend, and fiscal adjustment

IMF Staff Papers

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 290-316

  Davoodi, Hamid ^b   Clements, Benedict ^b   Schiff, Jerald ^b   Debaere, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NONE

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