- Title
- Government expenditure on health services and economic development in South Africa
- Creator
- Magida, Ngesisa
- Description
- Economic development relates to economic growth and improvements in the living standards of people. South Africa is ranked among the slow developing countries in the world, based on the high percentage of people living under poor conditions. This study examines the relationship between government health expenditure and economic development in South Africa between 1994 and 2022. Human development index (HDI), government health expenditure (GHE), inflation, population growth, and unemployment are the variables used to investigate this relationship. Auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL) and Granger causality were employed to examine this relationship. Government expenditure on health services and inflation were found to have a positive short-run and long-run relationship with human development index, whereas unemployment and population growth showed a negative relationship with HDI in the long-run. Granger causality results highlighted a unidirectional causality between HDI and GHE in South Africa, among other explanatory variables. HDI Granger causes GHE and vice versa. Continuous increment and monitoring of GHE distribution, to ensure that the growing population receives proper healthcare to boost the life expectancy of the citizens and to fund the preventative measures against health epidemics in South Africa is the policy recommendation to improve HDI in South Africa. Keywords:
- Description
- Thesis (Masters) -- Faculty of Economics and Financial Sciences, 2024
- Date
- 2024-00
- Subject
- Government expenditure on health services
- Type
- Masters theses, text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/10146
- Identifier
- vital:74943
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (122 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Walter Sisulu University, Faculty of Economics and Financial Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Faculty of Economics and Financial Sciences, All Rights Reserved, Open Access
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