In 2007, U.S. health care spending growth slowed to its lowest rate since 1998, increasing 6.1 percent to $2.2 trillion, or $7,421 per person. The health care portion of gross domestic product reached 16.2 percent, up from 16.0 percent in 2006. Slower growth in 2007 was largely attributed to retail prescription drug spending and government administration. With the exception of prescription drug...

this paper examines the impact of government expenditure on the nigerian economy for the period 1983 - 2012. the government expenditure components used as the explanatory variables in the model are: expenditures on health, education, defense, agriculture and transportation and communication. the gross domestic product (gdp) was used as a parameter for measuring economic growth. in order to esta...

Commodity price shocks are an important type of external shock and are often cited as a problem for economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper quantifies the impact of agricultural commodity price shocks using a near vector autoregressive model. The novel aspect of this model is that we define an auxiliary variable that can potentially capture the definition of a price shock that allows ...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: APP: Acute Phase Proteins; CAT: Catalase; EVHL: Evaporative Heat Loss; FAO: Food and Agricultural Organisation; GDP: Gross Domestic Product; GPX: Glutathione peroxidise; Hp: Haptoglobin; HS: Heat Stress; HSE: Heat Shock Element; HSF: Heat Shock Factor; HSP: Heat Shock Protein; IFN: Interferon; IL: Interleukin; MDA: Malondialdehyde; NO...

The consensus of the aid effectiveness literature is that foreign aid is effective at spurring economic growth in recipient countries. However, economic growth is heterogeneous in nature, driven by a number of different activities within an economy. This paper contributes to the literature by disaggregating the Gross Domestic Product of recipients in order to investigate the type of economic gr...

Indian economy is rural in character. This is evident from the fact that a very high proportion of the population is living in rural areas. Further two-thirds of its workforce is engaged in agricultural and allied activities, which contribute about 27% of India’s gross domestic product. In a predominantly agrarian country like India, rural development is a sine qua non for national development....

The share of agricultural sector in Gujarat’s net domestic product has declined to less than one-fifth, indicating that the state economy is witnessing a structural transformation. Post-liberalization, cropping pattern has favoured wheat, cotton, spices, fruits, vegetables, floriculture and medicinal plants. Despite a secular decline in the share of agricultural sector and sharp fluctuations in...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mutual interaction between corruption and agricultural export variations with using perception index, exchange rate gross domestic product affect. Study, centers Gambia country, but her neighbour competitive countries in order make comparisons. Study constructs a multinominal logit model analyze determinants depends on panel data belongs six Sub-...