Impacts of economic growth and CO2 emissions on health expenditures in Morocco ARIB Fatima, TARBALOUTI Essaid, ET-TOUILE Houria, MOUSSANE Aboutayeb

Impacts de la croissance économique et des émissions de CO2 sur les dépenses de santé au Maroc

Arib Fatima, Tarbalouti Essaid, Houria Et-Touile and Moussane Aboutayeb
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Arib Fatima: UCA - Université Cadi Ayyad [Marrakech]
Tarbalouti Essaid: UCA - Université Cadi Ayyad [Marrakech]
Houria Et-Touile: UCA - Université Cadi Ayyad [Marrakech]
Moussane Aboutayeb: UCA - Université Cadi Ayyad [Marrakech]

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Abstract: Health expenditures, CO2 emissions, and economic growth play a central role in the current debate on environmental protection and sustainable development. Carbon dioxide is the main GHGs that deteriorates the environment and has an impact on human health. At the same time, economic growth also impacts health conditions positively or vice versa. This paper attempts to study the impact of economic growth and CO2 emissions on health expenditures in the presence of trade per capita and gross fixed capital formation in Morocco using auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL) method for the period 1990-2020. Our empirical results show that there is a significant long-run as well as the short-run relationship between health expenditures, CO2 emissions, and economic growth in Morocco. The empirical evidence indicates a significant positive impact of CO2 emissions and economic growth on health expenditures in Morocco over the study period. The results also revealed that CO2 emissions and economic growth had a positively significant impact on health expenditures in the long run; however, there was no significant impact in the short run. Fixed capital formation and trade per capita were also found to have no significant impact on health expenditures in the short run. The current study and results have significant implications in theory and practice. Then, policy recommendations to control pollution, especially CO2 emissions and health expenditures without compromising economic growth are proposed.

Keywords: health expenditures; economic growth; CO2 emissions; Morocco; ARDL; croissance économique; émissions de CO2; Maroc; dépenses de santé (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-12
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Published in African Scientific Journal, 2022, 3 (15), pp.158-183. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.7461984⟩

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7461984

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