Defense Budgets and Poverty: A Correlative Analysis
This eight-page undergraduate paper examines defense budgets and poverty in the developing world. The author notes that in spite of the fact that many economic experts have blamed the sluggish development of Third World nations on armaments and defense spending, much of the evidence seems to indicate that such analyses are flawed, and are based more upon the ideological predilections of the expert instead of the facts at hand. Objective observers note that most developing countries have tiny military establishments, generally because they lack the resources to pay for weaponry.
