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Child Mortality and Economic Growth in Bangladesh: Evidence from ARDL Approach

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  • Kazi Mohammed Kamal Uddin

    (Department of Economics, Comilla University, Cumilla, Bangladesh)

  • Md. Farhad Hossain

    (Department of Statistics, Comilla University, Cumilla, Bangladesh)

  • Most. Shiulii Akter

    (Graduate student, Department of Economics, Comilla University, Cumilla, Bangladesh)

Abstract

Child mortality rate is the most important indicator of child health, nutrition, implementation of key survival interventions, and the overall social and economic development of a population. The attempt of the paper is to investigate if there any relation between child mortality and economic growth and the direction and magnitude of these relationships in Bangladesh by analyzing data from 1985-2016. For analyzing the time series data Granger Causality test and ARDL model is used. By Granger Causality test it is investigated if there have any relation between the variables and by ARDL model it is analyzed what kind of relation between the variables (child mortality and GDP growth rate) exists. Our empirical evidence reveals that there is a significant and negative relationship between child mortality rate and real GDP growth rate. So, it is concluded that the GDP growth rate increase as child mortality rate decrease.

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  • Kazi Mohammed Kamal Uddin & Md. Farhad Hossain & Most. Shiulii Akter, 2019. "Child Mortality and Economic Growth in Bangladesh: Evidence from ARDL Approach," International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI), vol. 3(11), pages 71-78, November.
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