TABLE OF CONTENTS
CERTIFICATION ............................................................................................................. II
DECLARATION .............................................................................................................. III
DEDICATION ................................................................................................................. IV
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ..................................................................................................V
ABSTRACT .....................................................................................................................VI
CHAPTER ONE
1.0. BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY……………………………………………1-3
1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM………………………………………….3-5
1.2 RESEARCH QUESTIONS………………………………………………….…….5
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDYING ……………………………………………5
1.4 HYPOTHESES…………………………………………………………………......5
1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY………………………………………………………...5-6
1.6 SIGNIFICANT OF THE STUDY…………………………………………………6
1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS………………………………………………………6-7
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW……………………………………………………………8
2.1 CONCEPTUAL CLARIFICATIONS……………………………………………8-10
2.2 THEORETICAL LITERATURE………………………………………….………10
2.3 EMPIRICAL REVIEW…………………………………………………………..10-22
2.3.1 DEVELOPING COUNTRY ……………………………………………………..23-28
2.3.2 DEVELOPED COUNTRY ………………………………………………………28-29
CHAPTER THREE
3.0 METHODOLOGY ………………………………………………………………….30
3.1 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF INFANT MORTALITY RATE ………..30
3.2 MODEL SPECIFICATION………………………………………………………...30
3.3 DESCRIPTION OF VARIABLES ……………………………………………..31
3.4 ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES ………………………………………………...31
3.5 A PRIORI EXPECTATIONS………………………………………………...…31
3.6 Sources of data ………………………………………………………………..…32
CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 INTRODUCTION ………………………………………………………………33
4.1 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS ………………………………………………33-36
TABLE 4.1 SUMMARY STATISTICS……………………………………………….33
TABLE 4.2 STATIONARITY TEST OF THE VARIABLES
4.2 IMPACT OF PUBLIC HEALTH EXPENDITURE ON THE REDUCTION OF INFANT MORTALITY RATE IN NIGERIA………....……………………………….36-41
TABLE 4.3 LAG STRUCTURE
4.5 ARDL ESTIMATE
TABLE 4.6: COINTEGRATION AND LONG RUN
TABLE 4.7: COINTEGRATION AND SHORT RUN
4.3 DIAGNOSTIC TESTS……………………………………………………….41-43
TABLE 4.8 BREUSCH-GODFREY SERIAL CORRELATION LM TEST:
CHAPTER FIVE
5.0 SUMMARY CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS……………….44
5.1 SUMMARY ………………………………………………………………….…44
5.2 CONCLUSION …………………………………………………………………44
5.3 RECOMMENDATION ………………………………………………………..45
5.4 CONTRIBUTION TO KNOWLEDGE………………………………………46
5.5 AREA OF FURTHER STUDIES……………………………………………..46
REFERENCES………………………………………………………………47-48
APPENDIX………………………………………………………………….48-60
