Modeling the defense-growth nexus in Guatemala

World Development

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 513-526

  Reitschuler, Gerhard ^a   Loening, Josef L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Defense expenditures; Economic growth; Externality effect; Guatemala; Latin America; Nonlinearity

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; GROWTH DETERMINATION; MODELING;

CENTRAL AMERICA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 14044278709     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.08.008     Document Type: Article

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