"WHY NOT A VOLUNTEER ARMY?" REEXAMINING THE IMPACT OF MILITARY CONSCRIPTION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH FOR SINGAPORE

Pak Shun Ng ()
Additional contact information
Pak Shun Ng: Singapore Armed Forces, MINDEF Building, Gombak Drive, Singapore 669645, Singapore

The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2005, vol. 50, issue 01, 47-67

Abstract: This paper evaluates the economic merits of a conscript or an all-volunteer military force for Singapore, focusing on military conscription as a subset of military expenditure. While many papers investigate the relationships between economic growth and conscription or defence spending, no concrete study has linked them to provide a new argument for or against conscription. This paper relates these three research areas to examine the economic costs and benefits of a conscript and an all-volunteer force for Singapore, taking into account the effects of military spending on the growth of the economy.

Keywords: Conscription; economic growth; government expenditure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0217590805001871
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:serxxx:v:50:y:2005:i:01:n:s0217590805001871

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from

DOI: 10.1142/S0217590805001871

Access Statistics for this article

The Singapore Economic Review (SER) is currently edited by Euston Quah

More articles in The Singapore Economic Review (SER) from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().