The nexus between health and economy: evidence from Malaysia / Wong Sing Yun and Jain Yassin

With the recent spread of the pandemic that has disrupted global economic activities, this paper seeks to explore the causal relationship between health outcomes and the socioeconomic indicators in Malaysia. Besides that, this paper will evaluate the income-health relationship in determining empiric...

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Main Authors: Wong, Sing Yun, Yassin, Jain
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description With the recent spread of the pandemic that has disrupted global economic activities, this paper seeks to explore the causal relationship between health outcomes and the socioeconomic indicators in Malaysia. Besides that, this paper will evaluate the income-health relationship in determining empirically whether this hypothesis is likely to hold in Malaysia. Empirical evidence from this paper highlighted a bi-directional causality between life expectancy and economic growth. Comprehension of such true causal relationship will be crucial to determine the direction of the flows. The findings from this study will provides additional insights into the relationship between economic changes and health indicator.
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spelling my.uitm.ir-716212022-12-14T01:54:43Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/71621/ The nexus between health and economy: evidence from Malaysia / Wong Sing Yun and Jain Yassin jibe Wong, Sing Yun Yassin, Jain Demography. Population. Vital events Economic development. Development economics. Economic growth With the recent spread of the pandemic that has disrupted global economic activities, this paper seeks to explore the causal relationship between health outcomes and the socioeconomic indicators in Malaysia. Besides that, this paper will evaluate the income-health relationship in determining empirically whether this hypothesis is likely to hold in Malaysia. Empirical evidence from this paper highlighted a bi-directional causality between life expectancy and economic growth. Comprehension of such true causal relationship will be crucial to determine the direction of the flows. The findings from this study will provides additional insights into the relationship between economic changes and health indicator. Faculty of Business and Management 2022-06 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/71621/1/71621.pdf The nexus between health and economy: evidence from Malaysia / Wong Sing Yun and Jain Yassin. (2022) Journal of International Business, Economics and Entrepreneurship (JIBE) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Journal_of_International_Business,_Economics_and_Entrepreneurship_=28JIBE=29/>, 7 (1). pp. 33-43. ISSN 2550-1429 http://myjms.mohe.gov.my/index.php/JIBE/index
spellingShingle Demography. Population. Vital events
Economic development. Development economics. Economic growth
Wong, Sing Yun
Yassin, Jain
The nexus between health and economy: evidence from Malaysia / Wong Sing Yun and Jain Yassin
title The nexus between health and economy: evidence from Malaysia / Wong Sing Yun and Jain Yassin
title_full The nexus between health and economy: evidence from Malaysia / Wong Sing Yun and Jain Yassin
title_fullStr The nexus between health and economy: evidence from Malaysia / Wong Sing Yun and Jain Yassin
title_full_unstemmed The nexus between health and economy: evidence from Malaysia / Wong Sing Yun and Jain Yassin
title_short The nexus between health and economy: evidence from Malaysia / Wong Sing Yun and Jain Yassin
title_sort nexus between health and economy: evidence from malaysia / wong sing yun and jain yassin
topic Demography. Population. Vital events
Economic development. Development economics. Economic growth
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