Does military expenditure determine Fiji's exploding debt levels?

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-87

  Narayan, Paresh Kumar ^a   Narayan, Seema ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cointegration; Debt; Fiji; GDP; Military Expenditure

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749067844     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242690701453784     Document Type: Article

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