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Health Status and Convergence in Developing Open Economies: Is Health Status Converging in Developing Economies?

Health Status and Convergence in Developing Open Economies: Is Health Status Converging in Developing Economies?

Tonmoy Chatterjee, Soumyananda Dinda
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781522502159|ISBN10: 1522502157|EISBN13: 9781522502166
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0215-9.ch016
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Chatterjee, Tonmoy, and Soumyananda Dinda. "Health Status and Convergence in Developing Open Economies: Is Health Status Converging in Developing Economies?." Handbook of Research on Global Indicators of Economic and Political Convergence, edited by Ramesh Chandra Das, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 364-381. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0215-9.ch016

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Chatterjee, T. & Dinda, S. (2016). Health Status and Convergence in Developing Open Economies: Is Health Status Converging in Developing Economies?. In R. Das (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Global Indicators of Economic and Political Convergence (pp. 364-381). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0215-9.ch016

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Chatterjee, Tonmoy, and Soumyananda Dinda. "Health Status and Convergence in Developing Open Economies: Is Health Status Converging in Developing Economies?." In Handbook of Research on Global Indicators of Economic and Political Convergence, edited by Ramesh Chandra Das, 364-381. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0215-9.ch016

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Abstract

This chapter delves into the relationship among different economic issues like economic growth, health status and international trade in the context of convergence literature. In this chapter we illustrate and provide arguments behind the convergence of health status in developing economies in the presence of open economy regime. In this respect we consider a panel data set of 17 developing economies of the time span 1960-2011. In the present study we have found convergence not only in measure of health care status but also in the measure of trade and openness and therefore we have dealt with such kind of complexities. Apart from these we have found that health status improves in the post liberalization period but cross-sectional divergence increases in post liberalization era.

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