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Is Globalization Inclusive in Health Outcomes?—Experience of African Countries

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This paper empirically examines the impact of globalization on the health status of the African countries by using panel data. Unlike previous studies, we have attempted to use three different dimensions of globalization and estimate their impact on health status. We also introduced an initial level of human development and income status as control variables and found them playing an important role. The fixed effects panel data analysis shows that globalization has a positive impact on the health status measured by infant mortality rate and life expectancy. Out of economic, social and political dimensions of the globalization, the first one has the highest influence on the health. Moreover, the pace of health improvement is faster or the same in low human development and low-income countries compared to that in medium human development and middle-income countries.

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    Restricted least squares method: Unrestricted Model: Model (11.2); Restricted Model: Model (11.1)

    H0: β = β1 = β2 = β3; Ha: All βs are different.

    Here β = coefficient of lnGi from Model (11.1) (Taking only 40 countries as per Model (11.2))

    β1, β2 and β3 = coefficient of ln(economic globalization), ln(social globalization) and ln(political globalization) from Model (11.2).

    First of all, an F-statistics is calculated using standard formula from results of restricted and unrestricted regressions. Based on this F-statistic, we reject H0. This establishes that β1 or β2 or β3 is not statistically equal to β. Then for checking whether β1 = β2 and β1 = β3, pairwise t-tests have been performed and simultaneously one-sided test is also carried out to check if β1 is higher than the other two. We found β1 to be higher than other two.

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  1. Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, India

    Vishalkumar J. Jani

  2. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad, India

    Ravindra H. Dholakia

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  1. Madras School of Economics, Kottur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    R. Maria Saleth

  2. Institute for Development Studies, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

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  3. Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Begumpet, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    E. Revathi

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Table 11.4 List of countries included in the study with human development and income status as reported in HDR 1995
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Jani, V.J., Dholakia, R.H. (2020). Is Globalization Inclusive in Health Outcomes?—Experience of African Countries. In: Saleth, R., Galab, S., Revathi, E. (eds) Issues and Challenges of Inclusive Development. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2229-1_11

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