Military Expenditure and Arms Trade: Alternative Data Sources

By John Wakeman-Linn, Nancy Louise Happe

June 1, 1994

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John Wakeman-Linn, and Nancy Louise Happe. Military Expenditure and Arms Trade: Alternative Data Sources, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1994) accessed November 8, 2024

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Summary

Analysis of the economic impact of military expenditures and arms trade is frequently hampered by the limited amount of transparent, comprehensive data. Country-specific information can be supplemented, however, by data from multicountry statistical sources. This paper describes seven publications which provide multicountry statistics on military expenditure and trade--the information each source conveys, as well as the differences in coverage and definition--to assist the analyst in understanding how to use this data. Comparisons of the data reported by the various sources reveal numerous, significant differences, particularly in data on military expenditures.

Subject: Defense spending, Exchange rates, Expenditure, Exports, Foreign exchange, International trade

Keywords: ACDA data, Agreements data, Arms transfer, CRS data, Defense spending, Deliveries data, Deliveries data only., Eastern Europe, Exchange rates, Expenditure data, Exports, GDP ratio, Global, Information source, SIPRI data, WP

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64
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Working Paper No. 1994/069
Stock No:

WPIEA0691994
ISBN:

9781451960709
ISSN:

1018-5941

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