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War, Resource Diversion, and the Political Economy of Human Security
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War, Resource Diversion, and the Political Economy of
Human Security
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Zaryab Iqbal
Department of Political Science
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
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September 5, 2004
Abstract
The effect of violent conflict on the public health of societies is an important con-sequence of war to which not much attention has been paid. There are severaldirect and indirect ways in which involvement in conflict undermines popula-tion health, including diversion of resources from health expenditures to defensespending. I argue that conflict compels states to reallocate resources in favorof defense and this results in reductions in health spending. I assess the rela-tionship between militarized conflict and government spending by estimating asystem of equations, using Zellner’s seemingly unrelated regression. I find strongevidence that involvement in armed conflict leads to a trade-off between healthand defense expenditures.
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Paper prepared for presentation at the American Political Science Association Annual Conference,
September 2–5, 2004, Chicago, IL.
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War, Resource Diversion, and the Political Economy of
Human Security
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Zaryab Iqbal
Department of Political Science
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
## email not listed ##
September 5, 2004
Abstract
The effect of violent conflict on the public health of societies is an important con-
sequence of war to which not much attention has been paid. There are several
direct and indirect ways in which involvement in conflict undermines popula-
tion health, including diversion of resources from health expenditures to defense
spending. I argue that conflict compels states to reallocate resources in favor
of defense and this results in reductions in health spending. I assess the rela-
tionship between militarized conflict and government spending by estimating a
system of equations, using Zellner’s seemingly unrelated regression. I find strong
evidence that involvement in armed conflict leads to a trade-off between health
and defense expenditures.
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Paper prepared for presentation at the American Political Science Association Annual Conference,
September 2–5, 2004, Chicago, IL.
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