Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is vital to achieving Sustainable Development Goals. It ensures that everyone has access to quality healthcare without financial hardship. Though the reliance on public health expenditure ...

Industrial output and economic growth in Nigeria has been lackluster and efforts have been geared towards stimulating the industrial sector with a view to accelerating economic growth. Bank credit and government expenditure ...

Deeper financial systems have long been associated with economic growth in economics literature. The financial sector is seen as the central nervous system of any economy, hence its importance in the economic development ...

This paper econometrically analyzes the effects of international trade on economic growth in the ECOWAS sub-region using a panel data set of fourteen ECOWAS countries covering 1995 to 2017. The Pooled Mean Group (PMG) ...

International trade theorists provide some mechanisms through which trade could be used as a driver of economic growth but nations of the world show different dispositions to these causing variations in economic growth. ...

The primary objective of this paper is to test the hypothesis that a debt Laffer curve exists for the Nigerian economy. A debt Laffer curve is a smooth inverted U shaped parabolic function showing a non-linear relationship ...

The importance of financial deepening in economic growth has long been recognised in economics literature. The financial sector is seen as the central nervous system of any economy, hence its importance in the economic ...

The paper was presented during the WHO-Advanced Course on Health Financing for UHC 2021 Geneva, Switzerland March 1st –March 23rd 2021.

The World Bank puts the number of poor persons in Africa, based on the international poverty line of US$1.90 per person per day, 2013 at 389 million, a figure that is more than the number of poor persons in all other regions ...

Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries faced huge health financing burden as out–of–pocket health spending remains the primary source of financing healthcare in the region. The region has experienced rising healthcare costs, ...

The question of how macroeconomic variables dynamically interact is very crucial in any broad-based economic integration aiming at expanding economic growth and living standard in any human society. This study examined the ...

The study examines the barriers to maternal care utilization in Primary Health Centres (PHCs) in eight randomly-select rural communities in Delta State, Southern Nigeria using qualitative methods. The study is a qualitative ...

This study investigated the dynamic relationship among government spending, trade openness and economic growth in some selected sub-Saharan African countries; covering a period of 1980 to 2015 with an annual data. The ...