Defence equipment cost growth

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This MOD economic research paper is arranged as follows:

section 1 provides the background context of UK defence expenditure compared with some NATO neighbours and selected countries and illustrates the trend of declining proportion of UK defence spending to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from post WW2 to present day
section 2 describes a new database and provides a review of the literature on equipment cost escalation
section 3 provides the empirical results of rates of cost escalation derived from our database, showing key trends, models and analysis and examines evidence for any pre-and post Cold War changes
section 4 concludes