Which Contributes More to Economic Growth in the MENA Region: Health or Education? An Empirical Investigation

Atif Awad ()
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Atif Awad: University of Sharjah

Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2021, vol. 12, issue 3, No 7, 1119-1133

Abstract: Abstract This study reinvestigates the debate on the potential influence of human capital on economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and takes into account two different proxies of human capital: health and education. The present study adopts a dynamic model built on the pooled mean group estimator (PMG) and analysed panel data covering 20 countries between 1990 and 2016. The results detect that, in the long run, while education has a positive and significant effect on economic growth, health has a negative but negligible influence on such growth. However, in the short run, health plays a positive and remarkable role in the growth process. This finding suggests the importance of distinguishing between the long- and short-run influences of human capital measurement on economic growth.

Keywords: Education; Health; MENA; Long and short run; JEL classification; I15; I25; O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/s13132-020-00662-0

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