Health Care Expenditure and Economic Growth in SAARC Countries (1995–2012): A Panel Causality Analysis

Applied Research in Quality of Life

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 639-661

  Khan, Habib Nawaz ^a   Khan, Muhammad Arshad ^b   Razli, Radzuan B ^c   Sahfie, Afz’a Binti ^c   Shehzada, Gulap ^d   Krebs, Katrina Lane ^e   Sarvghad, Nasrin ^f  

^a Universiti Tekonologi PETRONS (UTP) Bandar Seri Iskandar   (Malaysia)

^b COMSATS Institute of Information Technology ^*  (Pakistan)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^e CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f HAKIM SABZEVARI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Causation; Co integration; GDP per capita; Health care expenditure; SAARC

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921883503     PISSN: 18712584     EISSN: 18712576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11482-015-9385-z     Document Type: Article

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