Budgetary trade-offs of security expenditures in Turkey

Gunluk-Senesen G. G.

DEFENCE AND PEACE ECONOMICS, cilt.13, ss.385-403, 2002 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 13
  • Basım Tarihi: 2002
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/10242690213509
  • Dergi Adı: DEFENCE AND PEACE ECONOMICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.385-403
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: trade-off, Turkey, budget, defence expenditures, Defence Industry Support Fund, MILITARY BURDEN, DEFENSE EXPENDITURES, ECONOMIC-GROWTH, LATIN-AMERICA, EDUCATION
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper investigates the budgetary trade-off structure of security (defence+internal security) expenditures in Turkey for the period 1983-1998. A modified version of Todaro's distributive share index of social welfare is used to quantify the impacts on the growth of primary budget expenditures of Security, Education, Health, General Administration, Infrastructure, and Social Services. We find that defence expenditures dominate overall security expenditures and are less affected in times of bottlenecks in the economy. A systematic pattern of negative budgetary trade-offs of security expenditures in terms of other components is not identified. We also analyse the expenditures of the Defence Industry Support Fund in an attempt to find the cost of the modernisation program to the economy.