Volume 6, Issue 4, July 2014, Pages 839–849
Mekdem Majdi1
1 University of Sousse, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Sousse, Tunisia
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We try in this article to see how can help bring health outcomes, particularly on improving life expectancy. The purpose of this paper is to study the contribution of GDP rate of literacy, health expenditure and aid allocated to health on improving life expectancy for 5 countries of the southern shore Mediterranean using econometric techniques given in panel unit root test, cointegration test, and causality test during the period 1992-2010. We note that the variable aid allocated to health contributes positively to the improvement of life expectancy.
Author Keywords: allocated to health, gross domestic product, human capital, economic efficiency, life expectancy, cointegration test, unit root test, panel data.
Mekdem Majdi1
1 University of Sousse, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Sousse, Tunisia
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We try in this article to see how can help bring health outcomes, particularly on improving life expectancy. The purpose of this paper is to study the contribution of GDP rate of literacy, health expenditure and aid allocated to health on improving life expectancy for 5 countries of the southern shore Mediterranean using econometric techniques given in panel unit root test, cointegration test, and causality test during the period 1992-2010. We note that the variable aid allocated to health contributes positively to the improvement of life expectancy.
Author Keywords: allocated to health, gross domestic product, human capital, economic efficiency, life expectancy, cointegration test, unit root test, panel data.
How to Cite this Article
Mekdem Majdi, “Contribution of official development assistance to improve health: Empirical validation from a panel of five countries in the South Shore of the Mediterranean,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 839–849, July 2014.
