Will the improvement of life expectancy contributes to economic growth in a country? The response to this question is essential in the debates on health policy in the world in general and in developing countries (DC) in particular. The objective of this study is the impact of life issue through an analysis of the impact of life expectancy on the growth of Gross National Income (GNI) per capita in DC. Using a dynamic panel of 141 DC over the period 2000-2013, the study concludes that the improvement in life expectancy positive affects economic growth in DC.However, the results are mixed when classifying DC according to their level of income. We observe that the effect is not significant in the middle-income DC.
Times-series cross-country approach is used to empirically investigate the relationship between private investment and public investment. We use panel data for the period 1980-2010. Independent variables like public investment, gross domestic product, trade openness, external debt stocks, domestic credit to private sector are integrated in the model. This helps to take into account the impact of gross domestic product, external debts stocks and domestic credit policy on how public investment affects private investment. Empirical results of this paper demonstrate that these independent variables (except, credit to private sector) are significant at 1% level and that the associate parameter η is equal to -66.972 means that public investment negatively affect private investment. Public investment crowds out private investment. There is a substitution effect between private investment and public investment. Improvements in public expenditures may not directly increase private investment.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the integration of the relative cost of children to adults and of economies of scale in the context of household's welfare evaluation. Results derived with empirically-estimated scales show that female-headed households are poorer than male-headed households. Poverty is also found to be more prevalent in rural areas, in households whose heads are illiterate, and in households whose heads work in the informal sector. As for poverty dynamics, the results show that poverty decreased in Cameroon between 1996 and 2001. Despite the fact that some results are the same as those derived from the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) scales used by Cameroon's National Institute of Statistics, many stand in stark contrast to these. The results of the present study are used to recommend specific policies in favor of poverty alleviation. JEL classification: D11; D12; I31; I32.
Cet article analyse les effets des prix et du revenu sur le recours aux soins au Cameroun. Un modèle logit multinomial de choix entre cinq modalités (automédication, tradipraticiens, centres de santé publics, hôpitaux publics, structures privées) est utilisé. Les résultats issus de cette analyse montrent que le prix de la consultation, le revenu des ménages, le niveau d’instruction, la distance, la région de résidence influencent les choix thérapeutiques des populations. En termes de politiques publiques, les autorités devraient, d’une part mettre un accent sur l’éducation en vue d’améliorer le niveau d’instruction de la population, et, d’autre part, augmenter les revenus des populations par la mise en place de vastes programmes de développement générateurs de nombreux emplois. Par ailleurs, il serait important d’accroître l’offre de santé en infrastructures. Classification JEL : C25, D31, I11
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