The Economics of Disarmament in Africa

Mohammed, Nadir A. L.; Thisen, Jean K.

doi:10.1108/s0573-8555(1996)0000235021

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“…Despite this positive growth, the revenue levels in 1996/97 were only marginally higher in real terms than in the late 1980s. From 1989/90 to 1997/98, the average annual growth of government revenue was 1.4%, while the average contribution to GDP was 23.6% (see Table II Harris, Kelly & Pranowo (1988), Gyimah-Brempong (1992), Roux (1994) and Mohammed & Thisen (1996). expenditure side, there was a slight decrease in government expenditure between 1989/90 and 1991/92, with a recovery in 1992/93 followed by a period of marginal annual real increases until 1997/98, with the exception of 1994/95.…”

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The Demand for Military Spending in South Africa

Batchelor

Dunne

Lamb

2002

Journal of Peace Research

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Understanding the factors that determine the military burdens in developing economies is an important area of research. Previous research has suggested that to understand the dynamics of the relationship between military burden and economic and strategic factors requires detailed case studies. This article provides an analysis of the South African experience, a particularly valuable case study given the importance of the military sector to the apartheid system, the marked reductions in military spending that have taken place under the new government and the availability of good time-series data. A detailed analysis of the trends in military spending and the changing structure of government spending over the past 40 years is undertaken. A simple model based on a general theory of the demand for military spending provides the basis for an investigation of the relative importance of strategic and other social and economic factors, and is found to perform surprisingly well. The results of the regression analysis suggest that the trends in South Africa's military spending (for the period 1963-97) could be explained as an autoregressive process in military burden conditioned on a number of country-specific strategic factors. Imposition of the mandatory UN arms embargo in 1977 and the change in regime in 1994 had significant negative impacts, while involvement in the Angolan War and the early years of the Republic had positive impacts.

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“…The trade-offs or complementarity between military expenditure and other forms of government expenditure are not examined in this article. See studies byHarris, Kelly & Pranowo (1988),Gyimah-Brempong (1992),Roux (1994) andMohammed & Thisen (1996).at SAGE Publications on December 7, 2012 jpr.sagepub.com Downloaded from…”

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