Military expenditure and development in Latin America

Lahera, P Eugenio; Ortúzar, Marcelo

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“…At the same time, the democratization of most of Latin America may have made military spending less relevant for budgets than in the past. Recent studies find an increase in nonmilitary spending relative to military spending since democratization (Lahera and Ortuzar 1998;Lebovic 2001). Column H analyzes the effect of military spending onto our model using data from the U.S. State Department (1998 ACDA Report).…”

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Executive Authority, the Personal Vote, and Budget Discipline in Latin American and Caribbean Countries

Hallerberg¹,

Marier²

2004

American J Political Sci

137

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Patrik MarierÉcole nationale d'administration publique, MontréalRecent scholarship on budgeting in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries indicates that political institutions impact the level of budget discipline. Building upon this previous research, we argue that the principal problem that must be addressed in both the government and the legislature to insure strong fiscal discipline is the common pool resource (CPR) problem. At the cabinet level, the CPR problem arises because ministers consider the implications of decisions on their ministries only. The level of the CPR problem in the legislature depends upon the electoral system. Using a data set of LAC countries for the period 1988-97, we find that executive power in the budget process is most effective in reducing budget deficits when electoral incentives for the personal vote is high in the legislature, while strengthening the president (or prime minister) in countries where the personal vote is low in the legislature has no effect.

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Executive Authority, the Personal Vote, and Budget Discipline in Latin American and Caribbean Countries

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Marier²

2004

American J Political Sci

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“…The studies that have included the Mexican case within a pool of countries to analyse the effect of ME on economic growth have reported different conclusions (Lahera and Ortúzar, 1998;Benoit, 1978;Murdoch et al 1997). Lahera and Ortúzar (1998) is a descriptive study that identifies Mexico as a country with low ME among a groups of Latin America countries, which according to the authors require a revision of their respective ME policies since they seem to be spending more than they require on ME.…”

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“…Lahera and Ortúzar (1998) is a descriptive study that identifies Mexico as a country with low ME among a groups of Latin America countries, which according to the authors require a revision of their respective ME policies since they seem to be spending more than they require on ME. Benoit (1978) is a study of developing countries, which concludes that developing countries with a heavy defence burden had the most rapid rate of growth, and those countries with the lowest defence burdens show the lowest rate of growth.…”

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“…Data for the Mexican case are no exception: hence, there have been few studies of Mexican ME because of poor data availability and also for political reasons. Some defence economics studies of ME and development for Latin America and developing countries have included the Mexican case: Lahera and Ortúzar (1998); Benoit (1978), and Murdoch et al (1997). However, neither these studies nor those applied to other types of countries have established a final conclusion about the impact of ME on the economy.…”

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Country survey XIX: Mexico

Ramos¹

2004

Defence and Peace Economics

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This paper presents a survey of Mexican military expenditure (ME), which assesses the role of ME in Mexican economic growth. After presenting a description of the armed forces, Mexican military policy and the Mexico-US military relationship, this paper outlines a demand-supply model to analyse the effects of ME on growth. The empirical results suggest interesting insights on the ME-growth relationship for the Mexican case. These results present evidence against the crowding-out hypothesis of ME on growth. For the Mexican case, ME produces a positive effect on growth.Mexico, Military expenditure, Growth, Supply-demand model, crowding-out,

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Military expenditure and development in Latin America

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Executive Authority, the Personal Vote, and Budget Discipline in Latin American and Caribbean Countries

Executive Authority, the Personal Vote, and Budget Discipline in Latin American and Caribbean Countries

Country survey XIX: Mexico

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