HEALTH OUTCOMES OF POVERTY: EVIDENCE FROM AROUND THE GLOBE

Rabia Liaqat, Maimoona Waseem, Hafiz Muhammad Abubakar Siddique and Muhammad Tariq Majeed
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Rabia Liaqat: Department of Management Sciences, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Maimoona Waseem: Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
Hafiz Muhammad Abubakar Siddique: GIFT Business School, GIFT University, Gujranwala, Pakistan
Muhammad Tariq Majeed: School of Economics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Bulletin of Business and Economics (BBE), 2021, vol. 10, issue 3, 43-55

Abstract: This study is an attempt to examine the health-poverty nexus using panel data of 126 countries for 1990-2014. Poverty headcount ratio and poverty gap are used to measure poverty, and health is measured by life expectancy and infant mortality. The results confirm that poverty has an adverse effect on health. The findings discovered that the coefficients obtained using the poverty gap are bigger in magnitude as compared to the coefficients obtained using the headcount ratio. The system GMM confirms the robustness of the findings. This study suggests that programs to improve public health should not focus only on policies which foster economic growth but also on policies which help to decrease poverty.

Keywords: Poverty Gap; Headcount Ratio; Life expectancy; Infant Mortality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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