{"id":8442,"date":"2020-03-04T05:27:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T05:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=8442"},"modified":"2020-03-04T05:27:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T05:27:28","slug":"defence-expenditure-as-a-part-of-gdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/defence-expenditure-as-a-part-of-gdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Expenditure as a part of GDP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Minister of State for Defence gave information about the\ndefence expenditure as a part of GDP in Rajya Sabha. The Defence Expenditure is\nincreasing every year in absolute terms, implying higher spending. However,\nDefence Budget as a percentage of GDP may appear to be decreasing due to the\nincreasing trend in the growth of GDP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Budget Expenditure (BE) 2019-20, total Defence Budget\n(including Miscellaneous and Pensions) is 15.47% of total Central Government\nExpenditure. In BE 2019-20, the Capital Budget of the Ministry of Defence is\napproximately 31.97% of the total capital expenditure of the Central Government\nExpenditure. The expenditure on operations\/ maintenance and Defence\nInfrastructure has been maintained optimally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of State for Defence gave information about the defence expenditure as a part of GDP in Rajya Sabha. The Defence Expenditure is increasing every year in absolute terms, implying higher spending. However, Defence Budget as a percentage of GDP may appear to be decreasing due to the increasing trend in the growth of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[914],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-8442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8444,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442\/revisions\/8444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8442"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=8442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}