Investigating the Relationship between Health and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of 5 Asian Countries

By Seema W. Narayan, Paresh Kumar Narayan, Sagarika Mishra. 2010

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In this paper, we investigate the relationship between health and economic growth through including investment, exports, imports, and research and development (RD that is, they are cointegrated. Second, we find that in the long-run, while health, investment, exports, and R&D have contributed positively to economic growth, imports have had a statistically significant negative effect while education has had an insignificant effect. We draw important policy implications from these findings.

Subfields: General Health Professions

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