The Impact of Militarization on the Quality of Life: the Experience of Latin America and the Post-Soviet Countries

In General, in the world trends in military spending in recent years have such features among which we can note the following, for example, due to the fall in oil prices, oil-exporting countries have significantly reduced their spending on weapons, and if we follow the trend in certain regions, in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe there is an increase in military spending (this is largely due to the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine), and in South America their reduction and others. How, in General, do these global trends affect the population and the quality of their lives? This question arises due to the fact that most often the increase in spending on the needs of the military entails a decrease in spending on public goods, primarily "suffers" health and education, thereby reducing the quality of life of the population, as people will subsequently receive less than the necessary list of services for a decent standard of living.