Influence of Health Care Amenities and Health Expenditure to Enhance the Economic Growth in Pakistan

Abstract

The present study is conducted to examine the role of paramedical staff and government expenditure in the health field to enhance the economic growth of the Pakistan. Time series data is utilized which is comprises from 1961 to 2014, which is collected from Handbook of statistics. Co-integration technique has been used to explain the long run relationship among paramedical persons, expenditure and economic growth in Pakistan. Results indicated that there is long run relationship exist among the expenditure, paramedical persons and economic growth. Furthermore study applied VECM to detect the short run adjustment in variables to attain equilibrium in the long run.