Military expenditure and economic growth in developing countries: Evidence from system gmm estimates

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 183-193

  Hou, Na ^a   Chen, Bo ^a  

^a CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Military expenditure; System GMM estimates; The Augmented Solow Growth Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878812359     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2012.710813     Document Type: Article

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