Testing the Social Cost of Rapid Economic Development in Malaysia: The Effect of Trade on Life Expectancy

Ling, Chong Hui; Ahmed, Khalid; Muhamad, Rusnah; Shahbaz, Muhammad; Loganathan, Nanthakumar

doi:10.1007/s11205-015-1219-8

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“…More specifically, Tausch [ 93 ] suggested that globalization only improves healthcare status for underdeveloped countries, which could explain our results referred to European (not underdeveloped) countries and the relative unimportance of globalization in terms of health improvement. In the same vein, the authors of [ 91 , 94 , 133 ] pointed out that the positive association between globalization and a healthier population would be limited to developing countries. In this regard, this positive relationship between globalization and health in the least developed countries can be explained by increasing the easy supply of life-saving drugs, improving the institutional features of an economy which may influence the lifestyles of masses and enhancing the use of friendly-environment methods of production by firms [ 133 ].…”

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“…In the same vein, the authors of [ 91 , 94 , 133 ] pointed out that the positive association between globalization and a healthier population would be limited to developing countries. In this regard, this positive relationship between globalization and health in the least developed countries can be explained by increasing the easy supply of life-saving drugs, improving the institutional features of an economy which may influence the lifestyles of masses and enhancing the use of friendly-environment methods of production by firms [ 133 ]. From a different point of view, Mourão [ 74 ] also showed the higher (lower) exposure of developing (developed) countries to globalization.…”

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The Relative Importance of Globalization and Public Expenditure on Life Expectancy in Europe: An Approach Based on MARS Methodology

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López

Rambaud

2020

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Background: There has been a widespread debate about the overall impact of globalization on population, not just economically, but also in terms of health status. Moreover, the current health crisis is going to force governments to review the structure of the public budget to most effectively alleviate the negative economic and health effects on the population. Objective: The aim of this paper is to analyze the relative importance of globalization and the public budget composition—specifically the participation of public expenditure on healthcare, social services and environment in gross domestic product (GDP)—on life expectancy at birth in European countries during the period 1995–2017. Methods: The Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) methodology was applied to analyze the socioeconomic determinants of life expectancy at birth. Results: Our findings show that globalization has no relative importance as an explanatory variable of life expectancy in European countries, while government expenditure on social protection is the most relevant followed by public expenditure on health, gross national income per capita, education level of the population and public expenditure on environmental protection. Conclusion: European strategies intended to impact on health outcome should spend more attention to the composition of public budget.

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The Relative Importance of Globalization and Public Expenditure on Life Expectancy in Europe: An Approach Based on MARS Methodology

Cervantes

López

Rambaud

2020

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“…Thus, the sound policies are imperative to seize drug trafficking organizations by force for pro-equality growth. Ling et al (2017) analyzed the role of trade openness in Malaysian life expectancy using the data from 1960 to 2014. The results show that continued EG and trade openness substantially increase life expectancy during the study time period.…”

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Dynamic linkages between poverty, inequality, crime, and social expenditures in a panel of 16 countries: two-step GMM estimates

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Yousaf

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The study evaluated different United Nation sustainable development goals (SDGs), i.e., goals 1 and 2 (poverty reduction and hunger), goals 3 and 4 (promotion of health and education), goal 10 (reduced inequalities), and goal 16 (reduction of violence, peace and justice) to access pro-poor growth and crime reduction in a panel of 16 heterogeneous countries. The discussion of crime rate in pro-poor growth (PPG) agenda remains absent in the economic development literature, though Bourguignon (2000) stressed to reduce

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“…Utilizing cointegration and causality analyses, this study found that there was a long-run positive significant relationship between TO and LE at birth and causality was running from TO to LE at birth. Ling et al (2017) probed the relationship between exports, imports and LE at birth in Malaysia over the period 1960-2014, employing cointegration and panel vector error correction (VEC) analyses. The results from this study provided evidence for the presence of long-run relationship between exports, imports and LE at birth and the direction of causality was from trade to LE at birth.…”

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Life expectancy and trade openness: causality in Latin America

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Karul

Demir

2020

IJSE

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PurposeThe aim of this research is to investigate the causal relationship between trade openness (TO) and life expectancy (LE) at birth in Latin American countries over the period of 1980–2014.Design/methodology/approachThe bootstrap panel Granger causality test proposed by Emirmahmutoglu and Kose (2011) was used to determine the direction of causality in the presence of cross-sectional dependency and heterogeneity among Latin American countries. Also, four different tests were employed in order to determine the cross-sectional dependency and slope homogeneity. The stationarity properties of variables were inspected by employing a unit root test.FindingsThe findings indicated that Granger causality existed between TO and LE, at birth which was running from the former to the latter for panel. On a country basis, TO Granger caused LE at birth for countries with low level of economic development and higher taxes on income and profits.Practical implicationsThis study provides new insights for policymaking regarding the role of TO in achieving comprehensive economic reforms to increase LE at birth during a period of intense trade rivalry across nations.Originality/valueAlthough research in the literature has mainly focused on the impact of TO on LE at birth with panel data, most studies ignored the regional effects. It is the authors’ concern that the direction of causality can be country-specific and have regional characteristics. In this regard, instead of dividing countries for a specific region into two parts such as developing and developed, the authors investigated the pattern of trade–health link for a specific region, Latin America.

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Testing the Social Cost of Rapid Economic Development in Malaysia: The Effect of Trade on Life Expectancy

Cited by 13 publications

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The Relative Importance of Globalization and Public Expenditure on Life Expectancy in Europe: An Approach Based on MARS Methodology

The Relative Importance of Globalization and Public Expenditure on Life Expectancy in Europe: An Approach Based on MARS Methodology

Dynamic linkages between poverty, inequality, crime, and social expenditures in a panel of 16 countries: two-step GMM estimates

Life expectancy and trade openness: causality in Latin America

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