The Nexus between Health and Economy: Evidence from Malaysia
With the recent spread of the pandemic that has disrupted global economic activities, this paper seek to explore causal relationship between health outcomes and the socioeconomic indicators in Malaysia. Besides that, this paper will evaluate the income-health relationship in determining empirically...
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| description | With the recent spread of the pandemic that has disrupted global economic activities, this paper seek to explore causal relationship between health outcomes and the socioeconomic indicators in Malaysia. Besides that, this paper will evaluate the income-health relationship in determining empirically whether this hypothesis is likely to hold in Malaysia. Empirical evidence from this paper highlighted a bi-directional causality between life expectancy and economic growth. Comprehension of such true causal relationship will be crucial to determine the direction of the flows. The findings from this study will provides additional insights into the relationship between economic changes and health indicator. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d057f8e5dc0148b48c899fd8c53db9db2023-11-28T16:38:30ZengUiTM PressJournal of International Business, Economics and Entrepreneurship2550-14292022-06-0171334310.24191/jibe.v7i1.18663The Nexus between Health and Economy: Evidence from MalaysiaWong Sing Yun0Jain Yassin1Faculty of Business, Economics and Accountancy, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, MalaysiaFaculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sabah Branch, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, MalaysiaWith the recent spread of the pandemic that has disrupted global economic activities, this paper seek to explore causal relationship between health outcomes and the socioeconomic indicators in Malaysia. Besides that, this paper will evaluate the income-health relationship in determining empirically whether this hypothesis is likely to hold in Malaysia. Empirical evidence from this paper highlighted a bi-directional causality between life expectancy and economic growth. Comprehension of such true causal relationship will be crucial to determine the direction of the flows. The findings from this study will provides additional insights into the relationship between economic changes and health indicator.https://myjms.mohe.gov.my/index.php/JIBE/article/view/18663/9893lifeexpectancyeconomic growthhealth statusgranger causal |
| spellingShingle | Wong Sing Yun Jain Yassin The Nexus between Health and Economy: Evidence from Malaysia Journal of International Business, Economics and Entrepreneurship lifeexpectancy economic growth health status granger causal |
| title | The Nexus between Health and Economy: Evidence from Malaysia |
| title_full | The Nexus between Health and Economy: Evidence from Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | The Nexus between Health and Economy: Evidence from Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Nexus between Health and Economy: Evidence from Malaysia |
| title_short | The Nexus between Health and Economy: Evidence from Malaysia |
| title_sort | nexus between health and economy evidence from malaysia |
| topic | lifeexpectancy economic growth health status granger causal |
| url | https://myjms.mohe.gov.my/index.php/JIBE/article/view/18663/9893 |
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