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Health Promot Perspect. 2022;12(1): 92-100.
doi: 10.34172/hpp.2022.12
PMID: 35854854
PMCID: PMC9277292
Scopus ID: 85133092814
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Original Article

The association between health expenditure, institutions, and economic growth in MENA countries

Bashir Umar Faruk 1 ORCID logo, Mohammad Imdadul Haque 2* ORCID logo, Mohammad Rumzi Tausif 3, Md Riyazuddin Khan 4

1 Department of Economics, Faculty of Management & Social Sciences, Federal University Gusau, Zamfara State, Nigeria
2 Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
3 College of Business Administration, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
4 Department of Geography, Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
*Corresponding Author: Corresponding Author: Mohammad Imdadul Haque, Email: , Email: dr.imdad.amu@gmail.com

Abstract

Background: Expenditure on health is vital in the development of a country. Furthermore, the current COVID-19 pandemic emphasises the importance of health investments in maintaining a healthier economy worldwide. A substantial amount of empirical research on the relationship between health expenditure and economic growth yields conflicting results. The study intends to investigate the relationship between health spending and economic growth and institutions’ role in causing health spending to promote growth.

Methods: The study uses longitudinal data to examine the relationship between health spending and economic growth in seven MENA countries from 2000 to 2017. The study uses the Phillips Perron (PP) Fisher chi-square stationarity test, indicating that the data series is not stationary. Following this, we used the Pedroni test for cointegration, and the results show long-run relationships between the variables. Next, Granger causality determines the direction of causality. Finally, panel data methods of panel ordinary least squares (Panel OLS), fully modified OLS (FMOLS), and dynamic OLS (DLOS) supplement the findings.

Results: The Pedroni cointegration test (P value<0.0001) indicates that the variables have a long-run cointegrating relationship. On the other hand, the Granger causality test finds no causal relationships between health spending and economic growth. Furthermore, the panel data models show that expenditure on health does not directly contribute to higher economic growth in MENA countries.

Conclusion: The findings of this study indicate that health spending does not lead to increased economic growth; this could be due to poor institutional quality. However, for health spending to positively impact economic growth, these investments in health care must be supplemented by other factors, particularly institutions.

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Submitted: 10 Aug 2021
Revision: 03 Nov 2021
Accepted: 06 Nov 2021
ePublished: 29 May 2022
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