Role of health expenditure and ICT in a small island economy: a study of Fiji

Kumar, Ronald Ravinesh; Singh, Madhukar

doi:10.1007/s11135-013-9892-7

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“…The migration of young and educated people to developed countries has also stunted the growth of key sectors in PIC economies. However, recent developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and tourism are some solutions to the problems related to remoteness, low productivity and poor health services (Jayaraman, Chen & Bhatt, 2014;Kumar & Kumar, 2012;Kumar & Singh 2014;Kumar, Kumar & Patel, 2015).…”

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Effect of procurement policy on aid inflows in the Pacific: accounting for economic growth and financial development in Fiji

Kumar

Patel

Singh

2017

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The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) procedure is used to examine co-integration and the subsequent short-run and long-run effects. Additionally, the model incorporates per capita income, financial development, and crisis as a structural dummy; and the presence of threshold effect on aid inflows is examined. The results show that procurement legislation, financial development, per capita income and crisis have a long-run association with aid inflows. The new public procurement legislation has a positive effect on aid inflows from Australia, the EU, Germany, and the total aid. In the short-run, procurement legislation has a positive effect on aid inflows from the Republic of Korea only; and the procurement policy and financial development have a long-run positive effect on aid inflows to Fiji. Overall, improved procurement policies, a well-developed financial sector and a reasonable level of growth is necessary to bolster aid inflows, whereas political uncertainty and global financial crisis has a retarding effect on aid inflows.

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Effect of procurement policy on aid inflows in the Pacific: accounting for economic growth and financial development in Fiji

Kumar

Patel

Singh

2017

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“…In retrospect, 189 countries endorsed the eight time-bound MDGs in 2000 (Kumar and Singh 2013). Among the main objectives of this framework to guide global and national development priorities is a two-thirds reduction in child mortality in the under-fives (MDG 4) and a three-quarter reduction in maternal mortality (MDG 5) relative to 1990 rates (UN 2000).…”

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Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5: Progress in the Least Developed Countries of Asia

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The aim of this study is to propose a territorial measure of maternal and child health in the least developed countries of Asia based on the criteria established in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, in a context in which international progress between countries has been uneven up to 2013. Pena's DP 2 method is used to compose a synthetic indicator of MDGs 4 and 5 levels for 2013, the last year for which data are available. The index includes information on different variables defined in the Millennium Declaration, as well as a study of the impact of each individual indicator on the outcome of the synthetic indicator of MDGs 4 and 5 levels, and enables classification of these countries in terms of these variables.

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“…Hence, many studies focus on how ICT affects economy development in countries including Japan (Zuhdi, 2014), Spain (Estapé-Dubreuil & Torreguitart-Mirada, 2014), Russia (Feiguine & Solovjova, 2014), Indonesia (Zuhdi, 2015), Colombia (Gallego, Gutiérrez, & Lee, 2015), Fiji (Kumar & Singh, 2014), and the Czech Republic (Ministra & Pitnerb, 2015).…”

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Forecasting ICT development through quantile confidence intervals

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2015

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Role of health expenditure and ICT in a small island economy: a study of Fiji

Cited by 19 publications

References 73 publications

Effect of procurement policy on aid inflows in the Pacific: accounting for economic growth and financial development in Fiji

Effect of procurement policy on aid inflows in the Pacific: accounting for economic growth and financial development in Fiji

Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5: Progress in the Least Developed Countries of Asia

Forecasting ICT development through quantile confidence intervals

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