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Jane Channa et al, 'Guns or Growth? Assessing the impact of arms sales on sustainable development'

Review by Jill Dimmock

Amnesty International, the International Action Network on Small Arms and Oxfam International in association with Ploughshares and Saferworld; ISBN 0 85598

This is a piece of academic research geared towards producing an internationally acceptable methodology for assessing the effects of the arms trade on sustainable development in developing countries.

Its aim is to persuade al