Abstract
This study offers an investigation of the relationship between defense and social spending in the People’s Republic of China. In particular, three consecutive questions are answered here. Does a warfare–welfare tradeoff exist in China’s budgetary allocation? Is it positive or negative? What is the causal direction involved? By applying a vector autoregression analysis for the period of 1952–2006, this study finds a unidirectional crowd-out effect going from defense to social spending.
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