World military and social expenditures 1993

SIVARD Ruth Leger

World military and social expenditures 1993 - 15th ed. - Washington,D.C.,USA: World Priorities Inc., 1993 - 56p.

COVERAGE AND ARRANGEMENT:An irregular report which aims to provide an "accounting of the use of world resources for social and for military purposes, and an objective basis for assessing relative priorities. In bringing together military costs and social needs for direct comparison .... (the report helps to) focus attention on the competition for resources between two kinds of priorities." Sections include: Military trends - nuclear weapons and military technology proliferation, wars and deaths, and official violence; Social development indicators - poverty and population, improving health, and improving education; arms control treaties; and Priorities USA. Also includes an annex of comparative military and social trends statistics.

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ARMS CONTROL
COMPARATIVE STATISTICS
DEFENCE EXPENDITURE--STATISTICS
DEFENCE STATISTICS
PROLIFERATION--STATISTICS
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT--STATISTICS
SOCIAL TRENDS
STATISTICS