This paper offers a snapshot of the impact of COVID-19 on the African economy. Using the Probit regression model, we found that economic growth, inflation, exchange rate, unemployment rate, and commodity prices were strongly affected. The study concluded that COVID-19 harmed the African economy....

World is gripped by the specter of COVID-19, which is rampant across all planetary systems and straining many parts of our societies and economies in ways we never imagined. A year and two months after the onset of one of the most serious crises, we are slowly understanding the ramifications of...

Morocco’s healthcare expenditures regime growth has been in decline since 2010. The average annual growth rate went from 7.9% over the period of 1996 to 2009 to 4.4% in the recent years. The objective of this paper is to identify the demographic and macroeconomic determinants that shape...

The aim of the present study is to examine the contribution of health (through public health expenditure, life expectancy at birth, infant mortality and crude death rates) to economic growth Algeria in the period 1974-2013, in the augmented production function with health capital framework. We...

Malaria constitutes, beyond a public health problem, a major challenge for the development of endemic countries. The objective of this study is to estimate the economic cost of malaria in Senegal. A logarithmic double model with interaction effect is used and estimated, using a time series data...

The aim of this article is to examine the effects of insurance development on health expenditure and economic growth for 31 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries covering the period 1995-2015, using a panel causality approach. We also tested the causal effect of...

ABSTRACT & RÉSUMÉ & ZUSAMMENFASSUNG : Throughout history, nothing has killed more human beings than infectious diseases. Although, death rates from pandemics dropped globally by about 0.8 % per year, all the way through the 20th century, the number of new infectious diseases like Sars, HIV and...

The global revival of economic nationalism and protectionism poses a serious threat to the orientation of international foreign trade policy towards the principles of the WTO market economy. Economists agree that Brexit will significantly harm the UK economy in the medium to long term. In...

Human activity has transformed the planet at a pace and scale unprecedented in recorded history, causing irreversible damage to communities and ecosystems. Countries have focused their capacities on economic growth, with too little attention to externalities in terms of environmental quality....

French Abstract: Ce papier a pour objectif d'examiner dans un premier temps la relation entre les dépenses publiques de santé (DPS) et la croissance économique et dans un second temps l'impact des dépenses publiques de santé sur les résultats sanitaires en termes de mortalité infantile,...