“…Similar to the previous subsections, there are conflicting views about the linkage between economic growth and IMR. While some studies found a strong, positive and statistically significant linkage between the growth and IMR (Grubaugh and Santerre, 1996;Filmer and Pritchett, 1997;Cornia and Mwabu, 1997;Hamner et al, 2003;Duraisamy and Mahal, 2005), others indicated weak or negligible effect (Preston, 1975;Cornia and Mwabu, 1997;Day and Tousignant, 2005).…”