Sentences with phrase «highest military expenditure»

The military is well trained and better armed due to Burundi having the highest military expenditure of any country in the East African region and support from the US and Belgium; over 2.39 % of Burundi's 2012 Gross Domestic Product.

Not exact matches

In this era, military security became our highest priority, our greatest expenditure, and our scarcest commodity.

When expenditures exceed receipts (currently the case, arguably due to higher military costs), the government simply borrows or prints more money.

Especially considering that a large - but - impossible - to - quantify amount of defense budget expenditures are used to militarily secure petroleum exporting regions — this is just backwards: According to the Institute for Policy Studies, for every $ 1 the US spends on climate security (funding cleantech like renewable energy or high speed rail), it will spend $ 42 on the military.

Higher government spending allocated towards military meant less was available for social and economic expenditure.