Impact of Government Health Expenditure on Health Outcomes in the West African Sub-Region

Mustapha Rafiu Ayobanji (), Onikosi-Alliyu Saidat Oluwatoyin () and Babalola Abdurrouf ()
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Mustapha Rafiu Ayobanji: Department of Economics, Faculty of Management Sciences, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Nigeria
Onikosi-Alliyu Saidat Oluwatoyin: Department of Economics, Faculty of Management Sciences, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Nigeria
Babalola Abdurrouf: Department of Economics, Faculty of Management Sciences, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Nigeria

Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia, 2021, vol. 21, issue 1, 48-59

Abstract: Research background: Health outcome such as infant mortality rate is an important measure of the standard of living. It is a part of Millennium Development Goals, which all countries of the World strive to achieve, by allocating enormous economic resources to the health sector respectively. Purpose: The study assessed the impact of government expenditure on health and on health outcome (infant mortality rate) in the West Africa Sub-region. Research methodology: Secondary data were collected from 2000 to 2015 on thirteen countries in the Sub-region. Owing to the fact that the nature of the data involved is macro-panel data, the study performed the pre-estimation test (such as panel unit-root test and co-integration test) to ascertain the time series properties of the series. Based on the results of the pre-estimation tests, the work employed the fully modified ordinary least square (FMOLS). Results: It is found in the study that public health spending has an indirect impact on infant mortality rate in the West Africa Sub-region. Novelty: No extant study examined the impact of public expenditure on health and on maternal mortality rate using the West Africa Sub-region as an area of coverage. This study employed a fully modified OLS (FMOLS) to assess the impact of public expenditure on health and on infant mortality rate in the West Africa Sub-region.

Keywords: government expenditure; health outcomes; infant mortality rate; West Africa; fully modified OLS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H51 I10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.2478/foli-2021-0004

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