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Includes bibliographical references (pages 84-95).

Machine derived contents note: 1 Weighing the costs 6 -- Arms transfers to developing countries: a costly business 6 -- Sustainable development: strong foundations 9 -- The Millennium Development Goals: promises into practice? 10 -- Voicing concern 13 -- The need for engagement 16 -- 2 Causes for concern: the impacts of arms transfers -- on sustainable development 18 -- Opportunity Costs 18 -- Economic growth 24 -- The misuse of arms 25 -- The risk of arms races: the cumulative impact of arms transfers 29 -- The priorities and realities of importer-government spending 30 -- Identifying the positive impact of arms transfers 30 -- 3 Promises in pieces: sustainable development and arms -- exports 36 -- Respecting regional and multilateral arrangements 36 -- The absence of a strong, standard, or accessible methodology 39 -- Lack of transparency 45 -- The importance of 'joined-up government' 45 -- 4 Context is critical: investigating the relationship between -- security, governance, arms imports, and sustainable -- development 46 -- Government decision making 46 -- Budgeting processes and development of economic goals 48 -- Budgeting practices 49 -- Government justifications of arms import decisions 51 -- 5 Towards the development of an assessment methodology 55 -- Triggers: identifying transfers of possible concern 56 -- Indicators: information gathering 60 -- Factors: arriving at a judgement 64 -- A holistic strategy 70.

"Arms kill more than half a million men, women, and children on average each year. Many thousands more are maimed, or tortured, or forced to flee their homes. The uncontrolled proliferation of arms fuels human rights violations, escalates conflicts, and intensifies poverty. The time for world leaders to act is now." "To confront this crisis, Oxfam, Amnesty International, and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) have together launched an international campaign calling for effective arms controls to make people genuinely safer from the threat of armed violence."--BOOK JACKET.