The defence spending-external debt nexus in Ethiopia

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 423-436

  Wolde Rufael, Yemane ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Defence spending; Ethiopia; External debt; Granger causality; Variance decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350776421     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03066150902868171     Document Type: Article

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