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Social protection and economic growth in the Sudan: Trends, perspectives, cointegration and causality

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  • Mohamed Hassan, Hisham

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This paper takes into account the recent role of social protection on economic growth as a socio-economic-political stabilizer. Social protection outcome in Sudan is influenced by limited targeting actions with very low interventions between results in economic growth and accesses to basic social services. These may affects the social protection contributes to the process of development in the Sudan during the period under consideration. The results show that more social spending increase output which enhances GDP per capita growth by 0.5% with 3.1% towards convergence equilibrium in the long run. Moreover, universal approach and expanded cover to social protection services which aim at building a social protection as a productive factor may have contributed to enhancing income security, education and health outcomes, reducing the poverty, income inequality, socio-political stability, encouraged poor productive activities and enhancing economic growth lead to sustainable development.

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  • Mohamed Hassan, Hisham, 2010. "Social protection and economic growth in the Sudan: Trends, perspectives, cointegration and causality," MPRA Paper 31442, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:31442
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    Keywords

    Social Protection; Growth; Cointegration; causality; Sudan;
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    JEL classification:

    • C51 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Construction and Estimation
    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • B22 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Macroeconomics
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • C01 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - General - - - Econometrics

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