Millennium development goals affecting child mortality in Bangladesh: A Vector Error Correction model

Nobinkhor Kundu (), J.M. Adeeb Salman Chowdhury and Asaduzzaman Sikdar

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Abstract: This paper investigates over the last two decades across states a can be attributed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals for target reducing the under-5 mortality by two-thirds of Bangladesh. The paper analysis is able to condition upon a number of socio-economic and demographic variables, under-five child mortality determining by the asymmetric effects of female literacy rate, per capita gross national income and millennium development goal as a dummy variable. Using the time-series data, 1991-2012 period, and applying unit root test, cointegration test and by estimating a vector error correction model. The results find a single cointegrating equation showing a long-run stable relationship between the child mortality and the explanatory variables in the model. And also find that achieved Millennium Development Goals has a significant impact on the child mortality in Bangladesh, convergence of the short-run dynamics towards the long-run equilibrium, but sustainable level of child mortality is expected to be an important prerequisite for ensure future generation of Bangladesh.

Keywords: Child Mortality; Millennium development goal; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C5 I18 J11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-06-10, Revised 2013-10-15
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Published in The Journal of Comilla University 1.2(2013): pp. 95-108

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