Institutional determinants of military spending

Institutional determinants of military spending

Drawing on a database for 1988-2006 containing information on 157 countries, we investigate the effects on military spending of government form, electoral rules, concentration of parliamentary parties, and ideology. From an OLS regression on pooled data, our results show that presidential democracies spend more than parliamentary systems on defense, whereas the presence of a plurality voting sy...

The Politics of Military Spending

Institutional Determinants of Growth

Output per worker is correlated with productivity (Solow residual) is 0.89: richer countries tend to be more productive and vice versa (Figure I). Productivity is also correlated with human capital: 0.52. Much of the differences between output in the US and in LDCs is due to differences in productivity rather than due to factor endowments (Table I). Capital intensity, human capital and producti...

Military Intelligence Analysis: Institutional Influence

Determinants of Institutional Delivery in Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study

Background & aim: Government of Ethiopia is promoting institutional delivery despite the fact that there are a high number of home deliveries in the country mainly in hard-to-reach areas. Choice of institutional delivery is vital for the reduction of maternal and neonatal mortalities. The present study aimed to investigate the determinants of institutional delivery in ...