Gastos Militares y Desarrollo En America del Sur
Reviewed by By Andrew J. Pierre
Universidad de Lima
1980
312 pp.
A detailed examination of military expenditures in Latin America which also evaluates the effectiveness of the Declaration of Ayacucho in limiting defense spending. The principal author is a Peruvian economist, José Antonio Ecinas Del Pando, who knows his subject well and who has contributed to U.N. studies on the relationship between arms expenditures and economic development.

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