Military expenditure and economic growth: A meta-analysis

Alptekin, Aynur; Levine, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2012.07.002

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“…This approach has been used in various metaanalyses to deal with the issues of data dependence (see e.g., Alptekin and Levine, 2012;Bateman and Jones, 2003;De Dominicis et al, 2008). Moreover, using results from likelihood ratio tests, which compare MLM to the standard OLS, we confirm that the MLM in the case of our dataset is preferred to OLS.…”

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Effects of Government Education and Health Expenditures on Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis

2015

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Using a sample of 306 estimates drawn from 31 primary studies, this paper conducts an empirical synthesis of the link between economic growth and government expenditure on education or health using meta-analysis. We also explain the heterogeneity in empirical results. We find that the effect of government education expenditure on growth is positive, whereas the growth effect of government health expenditure is negative. Our meta-regression analysis suggests that factors such as econometric specifications, publication characteristics as well as data characteristics explain the heterogeneity in the literature. We also find no evidence of publication selectivity. JEL code: O40, H50, C1Keywords: government education expenditure; government health expenditure; human capital; economic growth Acknowledgements: We would like to thank two anonymous reviewers of the Program Committee of MAER-Net Colloquium 2014 in Athens; and the participants in the conference for helpful comments.

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Effects of Government Education and Health Expenditures on Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis

2015

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“…shown to impact on economic growth and development, as well as other economic variables such as international debt or corruption (see for example, Dunne et al, 2005;Collier and Hoeffler, 2006;Aizenman and Glick, 2006;Lin and Ali, 2009;Pieroni, 2009;Smyth and Narayan, 2009;Heo, 2010;Dunne and Smith, 2010;Alptekin and Levine, 2011;Kollias and Paleologou, 2013). Moreover, research has found that there may exist a trade-off between spending on the military and other areas such as health and education, the so-called guns-vs.-butter trade-off (see for example, Russet 1969;Deger 1985;Palmer 1990).…”

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The demand for military expenditure in authoritarian regimes

Bove

Brauner

2014

Defence and Peace Economics

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This paper examines whether there are systematic differences in military spending between different types of autocratic regimes. We view military expenditure as an instrument a dictator can exploit in order to stay in power. How he utilises this instrument depends on the institutional set up of his regime. We distinguish between military regimes, single party states and personalist regimes and predict that military regimes should have the highest, whereas personalist dictatorships should have the lowest level of military spending. Using panel data on 64 dictatorships from 1960 to 2000, we find empirical evidence that our hypotheses are not rejected.

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“…Power is embedded in the relationships that shape how one person or organization has more control over something than others (Alsop, 2004). The central argument has been on the influence of an individual or group over others, which could elicit a change in behavior or social orientations as an effect of such practice.…”

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“…This resulted into the ruining the project facilities, and there was no interventions from the responsible institutions. It could be argued that good governance of the formal and informal institutions is a key ingredient to sustainability of the CBWP, Jonathan Fox cited by Alsop (2004) uses four examples of rural development programs in Mexico to show that programs are most successful where social organizations have the capacity and willingness to participate, and where functions within formal implementing agencies (both at the top and middle levels) are willing to take risks in partnering with social organizations.…”

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“…Power is embedded in the relationships that shape how one person or organization has more authority than others (Alsop, 2004), while Jibowo (1992) describes power structure as "patterned distribution of authority and influence among various actors in a group or community". The study presents findings of power structure in the framework of three criteria -Governance, Informality, and empowerment.…”

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Sustainability of Community Based Water Projects: Dynamics of Actors’ Power Relations

Kilonzo¹,

George²

2017

JSD

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Sustainability of Community Based Water Projects (CBWP) in Central Tanzania was examined. Actors' power was hypothesized to influence sustainability of the CBWP. Power was analyzed from two aspects; power structures and power relations. A cross-sectional design was adopted, which allowed data to be collected once at a point. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to get the study sample. Stratified random sampling was employed to get 30 CBWP for the study and simple random sampling was used for obtaining 390 households. Purposive sampling was also employed to obtain the key informants for in-depth interviews and Focus Group Discussions Quantitative data obtained were processed and analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS 16v.) while qualitative data were transcribed and content analysis was employed in analyzing them. In examining the power structure the study shows that institutions and empowerment have significant correlation with sustainability status of the CBWP. The study also shows that global and national actors have high influence/power in effecting the CBWP critical activities. The local actors are perceived to be powerless; however, the study indicates importance of recognizing them because their position as powerless actors may limit their participation in the CBWP and thus jeopardizing the chances of yielding sustainable CBWP.

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Military expenditure and economic growth: A meta-analysis

Cited by 205 publications

References 70 publications

Effects of Government Education and Health Expenditures on Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis

Effects of Government Education and Health Expenditures on Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis

The demand for military expenditure in authoritarian regimes

Sustainability of Community Based Water Projects: Dynamics of Actors’ Power Relations

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