The Role of Good Governance in the Influence of Government Expenditure on Health (in Persian)

Vahid Kafili (ayhan_vahid01@scu.ac.ir) and Mahsa Ghasemzade
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Vahid Kafili: Ph.D. of Economics, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
Mahsa Ghasemzade: M.A. in Economics, Islamic Azad University Branch Urmia, Iran.

The Journal of Planning and Budgeting (٠صلنامه برنامه ریزی و بودجه), 2019, vol. 23, issue 4, 137-161

Abstract: Health development requires efficient labor force to be employed in economic growth and development. This issue bears more importance in developing countries since they suffer from a shortage of human capital. This research investigates the effect of good governance in improving the government health expenditure for developing countries (2002 to 2015). Regression analysis demonstrates that government health expenditure has a positive and significant impact on the health outcome, and this effect increases with the improvement of governance. As a result, increasing the level of community health can even be done without increasing expenditures, hence resource constraints in developing countries cannot be a plausible justification. This study presents recommendations for increasing the efficiency of government expenditures.

Keywords: Government Health Expenditure; Health Outcomes; Governance; Developing Country; Panel Regression. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 H51 I15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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