Abstract The current account balance is an important indicator which reveals information on a country’s economic situation such as investments, capital flows, and indebtedness. main purpose of this study to examine the conditions in emerging Asian countries. In respect, long-run causality relationship between balance, growth, government expenditure, real interest rates, foreign direct investmen...

Abstract Indonesia is an archipelago country and fairly vulnerable to disasters. While disasters generally affect government revenue expenditure, their effects likely vary by country. This study examines the effect of on fiscal balance, revenue, expenditure local governments. We used panel data fixed methods estimate degree which disaster severity influences budgetary solvency at district provi...

Ill health is very expensive and could have significant impact on household consumptions. The purpose of this study is to examine the differences in household consumption patterns among households with or without ill health family member(s) in rural China. We also examine the opportunity cost of ill health by estimating the marginal effects of medical spending on consumption patterns. The data ...

BACKGROUND Growth failure is associated with adverse consequences, but studies need to control adequately for confounding. OBJECTIVE We related height-for-age z scores (HAZs) and stunting at age 24 mo to adult human capital, marriage, fertility, health, and economic outcomes. DESIGN In 2002-2004, we collected data from 1338 Guatemalan adults (aged 25-42 y) who were studied as children in 19...

This paper analyzes the impact of the education funding component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the Recovery Act) on public school districts. We use crosssectional differences in district-level Recovery Act funding to investigate the program’s impact on staffing, expenditures and debt accumulation. To achieve identification, we use exogenous variation across districts i...

The argument on the behaviour of government expenditure toward reducing poverty level is still controversial among economists and policymakers. This study investigates role development in alleviating Malaysia. employs a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model from 1970 to 2019 using annual time series data. bounds test NARDL specification suggests presence cointegration variables...

Abstract This study intends to examine the impact of current health expenditure, domestic government education social protection, population growth, and foreign direct investment (FDI) on human capital formation in context Pakistan. utilized skill measure capital. The annual data for period 1990–2020 has been extracted from World Development Indicators (WDI) Bank. auto-regressive distributed la...