Military burden determinants in Southern Africa, 1996-2005: a cross-section and panel data analysis: paper presented at Economic Development in Africa Conference, held at St Catherineís College

A few studies have focused on the determinants of military expenditure in Africa in general and southern Africa in particular. Most of the studies are not exclusively on this region but cover developing countries in general, with a few countries from southern Africa. Those that have focused on south...

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Main Author: Tambudzai, Zachary
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description A few studies have focused on the determinants of military expenditure in Africa in general and southern Africa in particular. Most of the studies are not exclusively on this region but cover developing countries in general, with a few countries from southern Africa. Those that have focused on southern Africa are longitudinal case studies rather than cross-sectional. For instance, Batchelor etal (2002), for South Africa and Tambudzai (2006), for Zimbabwe. This article tries to fill this gap in the literature by econometrically testing for the factors that affect military expenditure in southern Africa, utilizing cross-section and pooled data estimations methods. The findings of this study confirm the importance of both economic and strategic variables in the determination of the level of military expenditure in developing countries. The strategic variables, however, have greater influence on military burden in southern Africa.
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spelling ir-11408-13982022-06-27T13:49:05Z Military burden determinants in Southern Africa, 1996-2005: a cross-section and panel data analysis: paper presented at Economic Development in Africa Conference, held at St Catherineís College Tambudzai, Zachary Military, Southern Africa A few studies have focused on the determinants of military expenditure in Africa in general and southern Africa in particular. Most of the studies are not exclusively on this region but cover developing countries in general, with a few countries from southern Africa. Those that have focused on southern Africa are longitudinal case studies rather than cross-sectional. For instance, Batchelor etal (2002), for South Africa and Tambudzai (2006), for Zimbabwe. This article tries to fill this gap in the literature by econometrically testing for the factors that affect military expenditure in southern Africa, utilizing cross-section and pooled data estimations methods. The findings of this study confirm the importance of both economic and strategic variables in the determination of the level of military expenditure in developing countries. The strategic variables, however, have greater influence on military burden in southern Africa. 2016-05-19T08:02:17Z 2016-05-19T08:02:17Z 2007 Other http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/conferences/2007-EDiA-LaWBiDC/papers/076-Tambudzai.pdf en Conference Proceedings;Ref No 76 open
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Military burden determinants in Southern Africa, 1996-2005: a cross-section and panel data analysis: paper presented at Economic Development in Africa Conference, held at St Catherineís College
title Military burden determinants in Southern Africa, 1996-2005: a cross-section and panel data analysis: paper presented at Economic Development in Africa Conference, held at St Catherineís College
title_full Military burden determinants in Southern Africa, 1996-2005: a cross-section and panel data analysis: paper presented at Economic Development in Africa Conference, held at St Catherineís College
title_fullStr Military burden determinants in Southern Africa, 1996-2005: a cross-section and panel data analysis: paper presented at Economic Development in Africa Conference, held at St Catherineís College
title_full_unstemmed Military burden determinants in Southern Africa, 1996-2005: a cross-section and panel data analysis: paper presented at Economic Development in Africa Conference, held at St Catherineís College
title_short Military burden determinants in Southern Africa, 1996-2005: a cross-section and panel data analysis: paper presented at Economic Development in Africa Conference, held at St Catherineís College
title_sort military burden determinants in southern africa, 1996-2005: a cross-section and panel data analysis: paper presented at economic development in africa conference, held at st catherineís college
topic Military, Southern Africa
url http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/conferences/2007-EDiA-LaWBiDC/papers/076-Tambudzai.pdf
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