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GOVERNANCE IN RELATION TO INFANT MORTALITY RATE: EVIDENCE FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Author(s) -
Lazarova Emiliya A.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
annals of public and cooperative economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.526
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-8292
pISSN - 1370-4788
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8292.2006.00311.x
Subject(s) - corporate governance , infant mortality , sample (material) , economics , developing country , mortality rate , demography , development economics , demographic economics , economic growth , sociology , chemistry , finance , chromatography
** : Governance is estimated to have a significant negative effect on the infant mortality rate based on a sample of 112 countries. The sample contains both developed and developing nations. The estimated magnitude of the effect is not significantly different between female and male infant mortality rate. Furthermore, we investigate whether governance is the preferred predictor of infant mortality rate compared to relative income. Though the statistical results are not conclusive, there is more evidence in favour of the governance indicator .