World military and social expenditures 1993
Material type: TextPublication details: Washington,D.C.,USA: World Priorities Inc., 1993Edition: 15th edDescription: 56pISBN:- 0918281083 (pbk.)
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Reference Item | Mindef Library & Info Centre Reference | R 355.033 SIV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not for loan | 0008756 |
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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