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The relationship between defense, education and health expenditures in selected Asian countries


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Mohd Tahir, Hirnissa and Habibullah, Muzafar Shah and Abdul Hamid, Baharom (2009) The relationship between defense, education and health expenditures in selected Asian countries. International Journal of Economics and Finance, 1 (2). pp. 149-155. ISSN 1916-971X

Abstract

This study explores the inter-relationship between military expenditure, education expenditure and health expenditure in eight selected Asian countries namely Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and South Korea. Autoregressive Distributed Lag-Restricted Error Correction Model (ARDL-RECM) procedure was utilized in the analysis. The empirical results suggest that, except for the case of Malaysia and Sri Lanka, whereby no meaningful interrelationship was detected between these three variables, the results for the rest of the countries are mixed, with differing granger causality being detected among these variables. The mixed results obtained in this study is an indicator of differing policy being implemented and will result in varying implication. Generally the error correction term is significant. Implying there is long-run relationship between defense spending, education and health expenditure.


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Item Type: Article
Subject: Asia - Appropriations and expenditures
Subject: Asia - Defense - Appropriations and expenditures
Subject: Asia - Education - Appropriations and expenditures
Divisions: Faculty of Economics and Management
Publisher: Canadian Center of Science and Education
Keywords: Defense; Education; Health; Error correction model
Depositing User: Emelda Mohd Hamid
Date Deposited: 14 Nov 2012 06:25
Last Modified: 22 Oct 2015 01:43
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17292
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