- Title
- Health Expenditure and Economic Performance in Selected Southern African Development Community (SADC) Countries
- Creator
- Qoko, Alungile
- Subject
- Expenditure and economic performance
- Date Issued
- 2022-00
- Date
- 2022-00
- Type
- Masters theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/10235
- Identifier
- vital:74951
- Description
- The study examined the relationship between health expenditure and economic performance in 14 Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries using annual panel data for the period of 15 years (2005-2019). Economic performance was the dependent variable with gross domestic product (GDP) per capita used as the proxy for economic performance. The other determinants of economic performance used in this study include labour force participation rate, institutional quality, and trade openness. All variables were examined logged to eliminate possibility of outliers. To test for stationarity of the series, the study employed two panel unit root tests which are the Levin, Lien and Chu (2002) commonly known as LLC, and also Im, Pesaran and Shin (2003) popularly known as IPS. The finding revealed that the series were integrated of different orders including I(0) and I(1) but not I(2). To test for a long-run relationship, Pedroni and Kao panel cointegration tests were carried out. The findings revealed there was cointegration. Based on these findings, panel auto regressive sistributed lag (ARDL), using Pooled Mean Group analysis as the best estimator for the model, was chosen to test for both long-run and short-run relationships. The empirical findings showed that there was a negative and significant relationship between health expenditure and economic performance in the 14 selected SADC countries. Governments in the SADC region should enact and enforce laws that deal with leakages in the health sector to ensure that health expenditure improves economic performance.
- Description
- Thesis (Masters) -- Faculty of Economics and Finacial Sciences, 2022
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (103 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Walter Sisulu University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Economics and Finacial Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Faculty of Economics and Finacial Sciences
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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