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The Security-Welfare Relationship: Longitudinal Evidence from Taiwan

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  • David R. Davis
  • Steve Chan

    (Department of Political Science, University of Colorado)

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We investigate the security-welfare relationship in the case of Taiwan. Specifically, we analyze any possible longitudinal relationship between the government's allocations of dollars and personnel to the military on the one hand, and social welfare as measured by the physical quality of life index on the other. Our results show that the defense burden, whether operationalized in terms of the relative size of the island's military budget or in terms of the relative size of its military establishment, has played neither a major positive nor negative role in determining the changes in its social welfare. We have been unable to find statistically significant evidence of the defense burden influencing social welfare either directly or indirectly (through its effects on the growth of GNP per capita and on the government's welfare and education spending). These results suggest that Taiwan deviates from general cross-national patterns, and indicate the need for further investigation into why it has been relatively successful in dampening the widely suspected trade-offs between defense burden on the one hand, and economic growth and social welfare on the other.

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  • David R. Davis & Steve Chan, 1990. "The Security-Welfare Relationship: Longitudinal Evidence from Taiwan," Journal of Peace Research, Peace Research Institute Oslo, vol. 27(1), pages 87-100, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:joupea:v:27:y:1990:i:1:p:87-100
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    1. Yemane Wolde-Rufael, 2016. "Defence Spending and Income Inequality in Taiwan," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(6), pages 871-884, November.
    2. Ying Zhang & Xiaoxing Liu & Jiaxin Xu & Rui Wang, 2017. "Does military spending promote social welfare? A comparative analysis of the BRICS and G7 countries," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(6), pages 686-702, November.
    3. Ying Zhang & Xiaoxing Liu & Rui Wang & Ruobing Tang, 2016. "Revisiting the “Guns versus Butter” Argument in China (1950–2014): New Evidence from the Continuous Wavelet Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 8(7), pages 1-13, July.
    4. Eric S. Lin & Hamid E. Ali & Yu-Lung Lu, 2015. "Does Military Spending Crowd Out Social Welfare Expenditures? Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(1), pages 33-48, February.
    5. Chiung-Ju Huang & Yuan-Hong Ho, 2018. "Does Taiwan's Defense Spending Crowd out Education and Social Welfare Expenditures?," Journal of Economics and Management, College of Business, Feng Chia University, Taiwan, vol. 14(1), pages 67-82, February.

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