Reduce military expenditure and boost human development

the arguments contained in UNDP/UN reports published between 2006 and 2014

Abstract

In 20 Human Development Reports (HDRs) already published
there are hundreds of diagnoses and prescriptions. There are
many attempts to indicate ways for the implementation and

expansion of actions and procedures in areas involving educa-
tion, health, environment, sanitation, adequate housing, among

others. Through documentary research, we seek to understand
the social and political significance of the defense, on the part
of the authors and those who took over these materials edited
from 2006, of choices and decisions rationally oriented both
to reduce military spending and to use such saved funds in

the implementation of human development. From a theoreti-
cal and methodological perspective that assumes the need to

make a historical context of narratives and arguments for the
reduction of military expenditure, it appears that the reports,
although they do not have elements for a substantive critique
of militarized tradition that supports the nation states, suggest
a decrease in the resources addressed to military sectors, since
there is a chronic lack of funds in those areas that could lead to
the implementation of the global agreements in favor of human
development.

Keywords: Military expenditure; human development; States;
United Nations.