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Country survey XII: South Africa

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  • Andre Roux

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This article examines the relationship between defence expenditure and economic performance in South Africa, both prior to and after that country's first fully democratic election in 1994. Prior to 1994 defence expenditure decisions were largely dominated by non-economic factors; since then defence spending has declined in reaction to, inter alia, the need to address a number of socio-economic inequities. After 1975 in particular, military industrialisation in South Africa placed a disproportionately high burden on the country's industrial resources and natural economic and technical capabilities. However, although this suggests that the opportunity cost of domestic arms production has been fairly high, the country's poor economic and development performance since the mid-1970s is a function of underlying structural deficiencies and institutional constraints rather than the consequence of inordinately high defence spending levels.

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  • Andre Roux, 2000. "Country survey XII: South Africa," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(1), pages 149-172.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:defpea:v:11:y:2000:i:1:p:149-172
    DOI: 10.1080/10430710008404944
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    1. Carlos Pestana Barros, 2016. "Country survey: Angola," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(3), pages 423-432, June.
    2. Goodness C. Aye & Mehmet Balcilar & John P. Dunne & Rangan Gupta & Rene� van Eyden, 2014. "Military expenditure, economic growth and structural instability: a case study of South Africa," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(6), pages 619-633, December.

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