Military spending and sustainable development

Gül Dertli

Using a panel data set of 160 economies from 1950 to 2018, this paper examines the relationship between military expenditures and economic, health-related, education, environmental, and social indicators of sustainable development. The results generally suggest that the size of the military expenditures is negatively associated with educational attainment, life expectancy, infant and maternal mortality rates, female labor force participation, gender equality, and access to safe drinking water, electricity, basic sanitation, and positively correlated with mortality and poverty rates and air pol ...Daha fazlası