IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rmdjxx/v15y2023i1p26-49.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Globalization and obesity in the GCC countries

Author

Listed:
  • Zouheir El-Sahli

Abstract

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have some of the highest obesity rates in the world. At the same time, the GCC countries have become increasingly integrated in the global economy as they attempt to diversify their economies. This raises the question whether rapid development and globalization contribute to obesity in these countries. To deal with the existing autocorrelation in the error term and the endogeneity problem, a dynamic panel econometric model is used to estimate the effect of globalization in its various dimensions on obesity in the GCC countries. This study finds evidence for positive and significant effect of social and economic globalization on obesity rates in the GCC countries relative to the rest of the world. The results suggest that (rapid) globalization can lead to higher obesity rates in emerging economies. Hence, policy has an important role to play to cushion the impact of globalization on health and nutrition.

Suggested Citation

  • Zouheir El-Sahli, 2023. "Globalization and obesity in the GCC countries," Middle East Development Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(1), pages 26-49, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmdjxx:v:15:y:2023:i:1:p:26-49
    DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2022.2160182
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/17938120.2022.2160182
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/17938120.2022.2160182?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rmdjxx:v:15:y:2023:i:1:p:26-49. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rmdj .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.