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Comments on 'Comprehensive human development: Realities and aspirations' by Salih, S.A

Hasan, Zubair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The comments were offered at an International workshop on Comprehensive human development organized by Insaniya University college and IRTI of IDB on August 18-19, 2009 at Langkawi, Malaysia. The main contribution of the comments are that the construction of human development index is faulty,...

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Determinants of Human Resource Development: an empirical analysis

Hasan, Zubair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

Using human development index of UNDP that the main factors influencing human resource development are the level of per capita income, its rate of growth, state of income distribution, and expenditure on military. HDI tends to lag behind income growth and is inversely related to military...

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Determinants of Human Resource Development: an empirical analysis

Hasan, Zubair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

Based on the annual Human Development Reports of the UNDP, this paper finds that the main determinants of human resource development by the HDI for various economies are usually the level of per capita income, its rate of growth, expenditure on military, and the state of income distribution. It...

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Defense spending and economic growth in Asian economies: A panel error-correction approach

Habibullah, M.S.; Law, Siong-Hook; Dayang-Afizzah, A.M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Hoping to contribute to the existing pool of literature, this paper examines the relationship between military expenditure and economic growth in selected Asian countries for the period 1989 to 2004. Our panel unit root test suggests that real GDP per capita and military expenditures are )1(I...

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Military and Economic Growth in ASEAN-5 Countries

Hirnissa, M.T; Habibullah, M.S.; Baharom, A.H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In this study we employ the bounds testing procedure suggested by Pesaran (2001) and dynamic OLS (DOLS) proposed by Stock and Watson (1993) to test the robustness of the causal effect and long-run relationships between military expenditure and economic growth in ASEAN-5 countries from the year...

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The Economic Background to the Gulf War

Alan, Freeman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1991

This chapter appeared in ‘The Economic background to the Gulf War’, in Yuval-Davis,N and Bresheeth,H (eds) The Gulf War …-Projekt übernehmen'></a> The book, a landmark in dissent against the conflagration that has become the war in Iraq, collated works from … scholars throughout the world who sought to penetrate the rhetoric of war, and understand its economic and political causes. In …

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Military Expenditure and Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis

Alptekin, Aynur; Levine, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Meta analysis is conducted to review 32 empirical studies with 169 estimates to find the combined overall effect of military expenditure on economic growth. Using a meta fixed and random effects and regression analysis, our results show that there exists a "genuine" net effect of military...

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Military Spending and Growth: An Empirical Exploration of Contingent Relationships

Musayev, Vusal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This analysis clarifies the ambiguous results from military spending and economic growth literature where the impact of military expenditure is frequently found to be non-significant or negative. Investigation re-examines effects of military spending on growth by analysing this relationship...

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Military Expenditure, Endogeneity and Economic Growth

d'Agostino, Giorgio; Dunne, John Paul; Pieroni, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

understanding of the issues and limitations of previous work. A recent survey has suggested that the inclusion of post Cold War data …

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Externalities in Military Spending and Growth: The Role of Natural Resources as a Channel through Conflict

Musayev, Vusal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This analysis re-examines the relationship between military spending and economic growth using recent advances in panel estimation methods and a large panel dataset. The investigation is able to reproduce many of results of the existing literature and to provide a new analysis on the...

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