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IMPACT OF INCOME INEQUALITY AND DEFENCE BURDEN ON ECONOMIC GROWTH

IFTIKHAR, ZAINAB; ALI, AMANAT - In: The Singapore Economic Review (SER) 57 (2012) 03, pp. 1250014-1

no support for convergence across the world. …This study explores how income inequality and defence burden affects economic growth in different parts of the world … income inequality and defence burden. A by-product of this analysis is the conclusion regarding convergence. Our study finds …

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On regional growth convergence in Great Britain

Henley, Andrew - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 9, pp. 1245-1260

Henley A. (2005) On regional growth convergence in Great Britain, Regional Studies 39 , 1245-1260. This paper examines … recent sub-regional output data for Great Britain to identify possible economic convergence. It concludes that sub …-regional data are subject to substantial spatial autocorrelation. Conventional estimates of 'beta' convergence are subject to …

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Corruption and Military Spending

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2000

Anecdotal evidence relates corruption with high levels of military spending. This paper tests empirically whether such a relationship exists. The empirical analysis is based on data from four different sources for up to 120 countries in the period 1985–98. The association between military...

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Does higher government spending depress private investment?

Laopodis, Nikiforos T. - In: Global Business and Economics Review 3 (2001) 1, pp. 133-156

This paper explores the implications of military and nonmilitary government expenditures on gross private investment. The empirical investigation of the issue is carried out via cointegration and error-correction analyses. The second type of public spending is disaggregated into infrastructure,...

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