Abstract
The Role of Military Expenditure in the Development Process: The Argentine Case, 1946-1980
Highlights
President Yrigoyen - who had been elected in 1928 - was overthrown by the military in September 6, 1930 and replaced by Gen
The ousting of Castillo in June 19438 marks an important stage in the process of politicization of the armed forces
Since 1943 the "repressive apparatus of the state-party" contradiction becomes the core of the problem of the coup d'etat[9]
Summary
Essays on the Economic History of the Argentine Republic; New Haven and London; Yale University Press; 1970; p. 1, footnote 1. The ousting of Castillo in June 19438 marks an important stage in the process of politicization of the armed forces. The defense/public expenditure ratio rose from 16.61 percent in 1942 to 19.40 percent in 1943,26.15 percent in 1944 and 27.66 percent in 1945 (See Table 1) This upward trend corresponded to an advanced stage of the process of importsubstitution, in which the military industries dependet on the Army's General Directorate of Military Factories created in 1941, played an important role. One of the purposes of the First Five-Year Plan was to avoid the reliance on foreign borrowing "The Peron Government was in the process of paying up the last of Argentina's foreign debt as another step toward achieving economic independence"
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