Defense spending and income inequality: evidence from selected Asian countries

This paper examines the causality between defense spending and income inequality in selected Asian countries namely Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, India and South Korea for the period 1970-2005. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing procedure is employed to (1) analyze t...

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Main Authors: Mohd Tahir, Hirnissa, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah, Abdul Hamid, Baharom
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2009
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13880/1/13880.pdf