Investigations of the 'guns vs. butter' trade-off models of military spending have yielded surprisingly inauspicious results in spite of the intuitively appealing nature of the hypothesis that the more we spend on defense the less we can spend on social welfare, etc. This paper examines the standard specification of the tradeoff model and demonstrates that the lack of empirical success of this ...

One painful lesson from the Great Recession is that there remain limits to what is achievable with conventional monetary policy. The severity of the downturn, despite near zero interest rates, has renewed interest in fiscal stimulus among academics and policy makers alike. Holding the general question of fiscal multipliers aside, the ongoing political debate regarding past and future stimulus r...

The present study aims to investigate the impact of health expenditure on economic growth in Algeria for period 1960-2016. Using data from World Bank database, Autoregressive Vector model and Granger causality, findings show that positively affects short term; which means study’s hypothesis is proved. results therefore reveal increasing importance investment sector order improve indic...

In this paper, we evaluate the liberal claim that democratic states devote fewer resources to their militaries. Low military spending is thought to avert conflict spirals and release more resources to fund domestic programs. While prominent in many liberal international relations theories, most notably in Immanuel Kant’s, this proposition has received little empirical scrutiny. Using several in...

The Memory of War, the War Memory: Social in Algeria Relations Between France and Algerian ImmigrantsThe year 2012 marks 50th anniversary official end war. memory this conflict other events which accompanied it is still alive French society. After many years oblivion lack interest from highest authorities, once again becomes subject great controversy heated debate. disputes focus on four groups...

The defense and peace literature have focused mainly on the military-growth nexus, with little attention paid to environmental sustainability agenda, which is impacted by increased global arms transfers. supply of lead-containing ammunition generates complex gas mixtures (including CO2 emissions) particulates that harm healthcare agenda. Based significance subject matter, study uses Indian econ...