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https://ptsldigital.ukm.my/jspui/handle/123456789/457415| Title: | A study of causality between poverty and health in Nigeria |
| Authors: | Ahmad Halima Salihi (P52978) |
| Supervisor: | Madeline Berma, Associate Professor Dr. |
| Keywords: | Dissertations, Academic -- Malaysia Poverty and health - Nigeria |
| Issue Date: | 6-Aug-2013 |
| Description: | Despite the introduction of many programmes by the government as far back as 1980, poverty has continued to grow and the standard of living of Nigerians has continued to decline. The study seeks to find the relationship and causality between poverty and health in Nigeria, so that an improved programme can be employed to reduce the menace of poverty. Two hypotheses were drawn in the research; one is to find the existence of a long run relationship between poverty and health while the second is to find the direction of the relationship. Poverty incidence was used as the dependent variable while six health indicators including life expectancy, government health expenditure, access to water and sanitation, school enrolment and dummy variable of HIV were used as the explanatory variables representing health. Time series data from 1970 to 2009 was used. Cointegration analysis using the Auto Regressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) framework was applied to test for short run and long run relationship after testing for unit root using the Augmented Dicker Fuller (ADF), the bound test for cointegration existence. While the Wald F-test for granger causality was also employed to find the direction of causality. The empirical findings showed that, government health expenditure, access to water, access to sanitation and school enrolment were found to be significant in both short and long run. With school enrolment and accessibility to sanitation being most significant in the short and long run periods respectively. Equally, a unidirectional relationship running from health to poverty was also observed. Thus, policies that would enhance accessibility to water, sanitation and qualitative education would play a significant role in reducing the incidence of poverty in Nigeria.,Master |
| Pages: | 109 |
| Call Number: | HC79.P6 A375 2013 |
| Publisher: | UKM, Bangi |
| Appears in Collections: | Faculty of Economy and Management / Fakulti Ekonomi dan Pengurusan |
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