TY - JOUR PY - 2000// TI - Your country needs you! Forced recruitment in Honduras JO - Defence and peace economics A1 - Thorpe, Andy A1 - Cameron, Sam SP - 185 EP - 195 VL - 11 IS - 1 N2 - Conscription was an obvious topic for economists to study during the heyday of the Vietnam war but, as the US draft threat has receded, so has the literature. One area where conscription remains important however is in the developing world, in particular, Latin America. Here the military maintain a high profile, yet forced recruitment remains a seriously under-researched area. Our paper addresses this, assessing whether the armed forces in Honduras have implemented systematic recruitment patterns, through the examination of a rural household survey of 794 families.
LA - SN - 1024-2694 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10430710008404946 ID - ref1 ER -