Government revenue, quality of governance and child and maternal survival
Abstract
This paper considers the effect of government revenue and the quality of governance on the under-five and maternal survival rates. A non-linear panel data study was undertaken using annual data for every country in the world. The study's broad conclusion is that while government resources, measured as total revenue received by a country's government, is essential, the quality of governance is even more critical in determining a good outcome for both mother and child.
Citation
Hall , S , Lopez , M , Murray , S W & O'Hare , B A-M 2021 , ' Government revenue, quality of governance and child and maternal survival ' , Applied Economics Letters , vol. Latest Articles . https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2021.1963408
Publication
Applied Economics Letters
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1350-4851Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-ncnd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Description
Funding: Global Challenges Research Fund / Prof Sonia Buist Global Child Health Research Fund / Scottish Funding Council.Collections
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