IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijhdev/v6y2020i1p59-75.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Do education and health influence economic growth and food security? Evidence from Bangladesh

Author

Listed:
  • Md. Saiful Islam

Abstract

This study aims to explore the impact of education and health on economic growth and food security (FS) in Bangladesh. It employs economic growth rate, expenditure on education as a proxy for education, expenditure on health as a proxy for health, and fertility rate, infant mortality rate and prevalence of undernourishment as proxies for FS. Descriptive statistics are used to measure the FS indices. Engle-Granger cointegration is applied to determine the long run and short run relationships among variables, using World Bank data for the period 1998-2017. Cointegration results confirm the existence of short run as well as long run positive relationships between education spending and economic growth. The findings suggest that education has a direct link with FS, which has various dimensions, including access to food; if the population are educated; they are empowered and able to access food both by market and non-market mechanisms.

Suggested Citation

  • Md. Saiful Islam, 2020. "Do education and health influence economic growth and food security? Evidence from Bangladesh," International Journal of Happiness and Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 6(1), pages 59-75.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijhdev:v:6:y:2020:i:1:p:59-75
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=108754
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Fakhre Alam & Harman Preet Singh & Ajay Singh, 2022. "Economic Growth in Saudi Arabia through Sectoral Reallocation of Government Expenditures," SAGE Open, , vol. 12(4), pages 21582440221, October.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijhdev:v:6:y:2020:i:1:p:59-75. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=395 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.