Econometric study of the impact of health expenditure on economic growth in mena countries (2000-2018)‎

Abstract EN

This paper aim to identify the issue of the impact of health expenditure on economic growth in some MEANA's countries in the period 2000-2018, wich are: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, by verifying the Panel Cointegration Model And the expected causal relationship between the variables.

This study reached the following results: Relying to the fixed effects model, we conclude that the government expenditure on health signal is positive and this is consistent with the economic theory, as well as from the statistical point of view, the results reached the significance of the constant with different values of the constant, from country to another, due to the specificity of each country.

As for the logarithmic model, we note that “ more government expenditure on health care increases by 1, the GDP per capita increase by 0.

71.