Nexus Between Governance and Socioeconomic Factors on Public Service Fragility in Asian Economies

Abstract

ObjectiveThis article examines the impact of internal factors such as governance and state fragility on institutional quality in terms of public service fragility (PSF) in Asian economies.MethodThis study used the PSF as dependent variables in Asian economies from 2008 to 2018 and applied a two‐step generalized method of moment estimation; government effectiveness (GE), regulatory control (RC), demographic pressure (DP), and Human Capital Index (HCI) as explanatory variables, with population growth and GDP growth rate as control variables.ResultsThe results show that DPs have significant impacts on PSF, while GE, RC, and efficient human capital utilization have insignificant impacts on PSF.ConclusionBased on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that DP has a significant impact on public service delivery in Asia compared to other socioeconomic factors. However, with the implication of effective governance policies and by maximum human capital utilization, public services can be improved.

Nexus of regional integration, socioeconomic determinants and sustainable development in belt and road initiative countries

“…The interaction term of HSPC � RI shows a positive relationship with sustainable development, while HD � RI and APL � RI have a negative relationship. Two-step system GMM dynamic model is a valid and appropriate approach, with the support of accepted standards of J-statistics, Arellano-Bond (AR) test, Hansen test, Sargan test, and Wald-CHI test, as stated by several authors [22,[74][75][76][77][78]. Two-step system GMM final model is reported in column 5.…”

“…Therefore, GMM provides more efficient and accurate estimates by controlling the lag-effect of its own dependent variable-SD to predict the future more accurately in the long term. Thus, previous studies of Arellano and Bond [ 71 ], Arellano and Bover [ 72 ], Blundell and Bond [ 73 ], Roodman [ 74 ], Farhadi, Islam [ 75 ], Arminen and Menegaki [ 76 ], Lin [ 77 ], Ahmad, Khattak [ 78 ], Abbas, Gillani [ 22 ], and Ullah, Kui [ 24 ] relied on and preferred this technique for the panel dataset. To deal with the potential endogeneity issues, the GMM estimator is best suited.…”

“…The variables used in this study to determine the relationship between sustainable development and its socio-economic determinants with regional integration as moderating variable are: human development, health expenditure per capita, age structure share, governance composite, e-government, globalization index, population size, and government size, based on past studies [ 4 , 10 , 13 , 15 – 17 , 22 , 26 – 30 ].…”

“…China’s issue of sustainable economic development has been addressed in Eurasia and it is argued that the BRI proposition is the key to achieving the mutual objective of sustainable development [ 13 ]. Abbas, Gillani [ 22 ] recommend studying sustainable development determinants concerning regional integration and governance, e-government and globalization factors. Moreover, Naeher and Narayanan [ 23 ] have pointed out that sustainability has been attracting unprecedented attention in recent years, in developing countries.…”

Role of Chinese government and Public–Private Partnership in combating COVID-19 in China

“…Developing countries have benefited from this PPP collaboration by providing reasonable incentives and planning to private inducers (Comendeiro-Maaløe et al, 2019;Shibu et al, 2020). PPP needs for vaccine development; in fact, it requires health facilities, daily medicines, and precaution measures to reduce services burden on the public sector (Abbas et al, 2020(Abbas et al, , 2021aAruru et al, 2020;Ferreira & Marques, 2020).…”