Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/214265 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) [ISSN:] 2309-8619 [Volume:] 13 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Johar Education Society, Pakistan (JESPK) [Place:] Lahore [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 1041-1056
Publisher: 
Johar Education Society, Pakistan (JESPK), Lahore
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the impact of trade openness and public expenditures on health status in OIC member countries. Panel data of 47 OIC member countries from 1991 to 2017 is taken from the World Development Indicators (WDI). The econometric results areestimated using GMM technique to avoid the endogeneity issue in panel data analysis. The results reveal that trade openness, public health expenditures, public education expenditures and economic growth are positively and significantly correlated with life expectancy in overall OIC countries and high income OIC countries. GDP is negatively and significantly correlated with life expectancy in low income OIC countries. Trade openness, public health expenditures, public education expenditures and GDP are negatively and significantly correlated with infant mortality rate in overall OIC countries and high income OIC countries.GDP has positively and significantly correlated with infant mortality rate in low income OIC countries
Subjects: 
trade openness
public health expenditure
public education expenditure
GDP
life expectancy
infant mortality rate
OIC countries
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