Education outcomes, health outcomes and economic growth in Nigeria (1980–2013)

Umar, Dominic Ikoh

doi:10.1007/s40847-017-0039-x

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“…This implies that education is an important determinant of life expectancy. This finding is in line with those of Sen (1999), Gulis (2000) and Umar (2017), but was found to be insignificant in the case of Ilori, Olalere, and Adeleye (2017). Essentially, education affects life expectancy both directly and indirectly.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…At the turn of the millennium, the average life expectancy in Nigeria stood at about 46.10 years but rose steadily thereafter to about 47. 72, 50.39, 52.55, 53.49 and 54.81 years in 2005, 2010, 2015, 2017, respectively (World Bank, 2020. Again, what become apparent from the foregoing trend analysis of life expectancy at birth in Nigeria is that, there have been remarkable variations, though since 2010, there has been an upward trend.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Remittance Volatility and Health Sector Performance: Evidence From Nigeria

Oguntomi

Igbinedion

2021

Sriwijaya Int. J. of Dynamic Eco. And Buss.

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For the past three decades the world has witnessed an unprecedented rise in remittance. This upsurge has necessitated researches in its potential impacts on the various facets of development. In spite of the surging interest on the impact of remittance, there has been paucity of researches on the impact of remittance volatility on health outcomes. This study therefore seeks to investigate the nexus between remittance volatility and life expectancy at birth within the Nigeria context, utilizing the Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS) and Error Correction Model (ECM) for the period 1981 to 2018. Findings suggest that while remittance volatility has statistically significant negative impact on life expectancy in the long-run, it was however positive but insignificant in the short-run. Other factors such as income, education status and public health expenditure were also found to be major determinants of life expectancy in Nigeria. Given that remittances are largely susceptible to external shocks, and are beyond the control of policy makers in the recipient countries, relevant measures should be put in place in the home front to significantly cushion the negative impact of such fluctuations on life expectancy in the long-run.

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confidence: 91%

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confidence: 99%

Remittance Volatility and Health Sector Performance: Evidence From Nigeria

Oguntomi

Igbinedion

2021

Sriwijaya Int. J. of Dynamic Eco. And Buss.

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“…After the recognition of Solow growth model (32–36), have documented the significance of education for economic growth, identifying that higher education standards have an important role in advancing economic development. Later, Feinstein (41), Faridi et al (45), Umar (46), and Spiteri and Brockdorff (47) proposed the relevance of the health condition for labor productivity and economc growth. Afterwards, a number of studies have proclaimed the relationship between carbon emission and economic growth (76–78).…”

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confidence: 99%

Nexus Among Economic Growth, Education, Health, and Environment: Dynamic Analysis of World-Level Data

Sarwar

Alsaggaf

Ting-qiu

2019

Front. Public Health

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The aim of current study is to examine the nexus among economic growth, education, health issues, and carbon emission for the panel of 161 countries. Education and health have confirmed insignificant coefficients for economic growth and carbon emission, which mention that higher education and better health conditions are not useful for boosting economic development and for controlling environmental degradation process. Empirical estimations have reported that higher capital investment leads to increase the economic process and carbon emission. Higher educational standard and capital investment helps to control the health issues, in the long-and short-run. On contrary, higher carbon emission creates health issues. The given results can provide support to the economic, social, and environmental policy makers during policy decisions. For example, the study suggests green financing and low carbon economy concept; the government and industries have to increase the investment on modern, energy efficient, and green technologies, which are useful for economic development, as well as to control the environmental degradation process.

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“…Economic development is influenced by developments in the social sector. The social sector includes the health sector (Umar, 2017) and the education sector (Ogundari & Awokuse, 2018). In addition, development is also influenced by the availability of financing (Dawood, Pratama, Masbar, & Effendi, 2019) and public spending (Ambya, 2020;Elia, Yulianto, Tiawon, Sustiyah, & Indrajaya, 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How important are health and education in boosting sub-national economic growth?

Verazulianti

Dawood

Zulham

2021

JSeD

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Development of the global economy is marked by increasing attention towards the health sector due to Covid-19 outbreak. This research contributes by examining how important is health and education for provincial economic growth, and connect it with foreign direct investments, and infrastructure spending. Taking Indonesia as a case study, and employing GMM and Fixed Effects methods, the analysis found that improving health and education outcomes are key for sub-national economic growth. However, foreign direct investment, domestic direct investment and public spending on infrastructure failed to support growth in the sub-national level. The finding is robust against alternative specifications. For policy suggestions, in order to dampen the negative economic effects of Covid-19 and to boost growth at post-pandemic period, government at all levels must maintain or even increase public spending in health and education which directly target improvements of health and educational outcomes. To ensure the improvements, public spending must be directed to provide good quality health and educational services; services which enhance health outcomes and develop students’ cognitive skills. In addition, good quality health and educational services must be evenly distributed across sub-nationalities. This is aligned with achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals number 10; reducing inequality within a country.JEL Classification H51; H52; O15

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Education outcomes, health outcomes and economic growth in Nigeria (1980–2013)

Cited by 10 publications

References 15 publications

Remittance Volatility and Health Sector Performance: Evidence From Nigeria

Remittance Volatility and Health Sector Performance: Evidence From Nigeria

Nexus Among Economic Growth, Education, Health, and Environment: Dynamic Analysis of World-Level Data

How important are health and education in boosting sub-national economic growth?

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