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Title: | Economic Growth and Defence Spending in Sub-Saharan Africa: Benoit and Joerding Revisited |
Author: | Mohammed, Nadir A.L. |
Year: | 1993 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Economies |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | October |
Pages: | 145-156 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
Subjects: | public expenditure defence economic development Economics and Trade Military, Defense and Arms |
External link: | https://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/2/2/145.full.pdf |
Abstract: | This paper examines the direction of causality between economic growth and military burden in 13 sub-Saharan African countries - Benin, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaire - by Granger and Hsiao tests. The countries fall under the 'low-income oil-importing' category in the World Bank classification and there is considerable military involvement in the economic and political affairs of these countries. The results of the two tests are similar and show that military burden is not determined by economic growth. The results show the continued validity of the assumed exogeneity of military spending in preexisting sub-Saharan African economic studies, and confirm the importance of simultaneous equation models in the study of the economic effects of military expenditure. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |