(جامعة الوادي - University of Eloued, 2017-12-31) بحوصي, مجدوب; سليماني, إلياس; عريس, عمار
The objective of the current study is to analyze the causality relationship between the government
spending on the health Sector and economic growth in Algeria during (1995-2013) in the short and long
term, and to test the economics’ theories that explain this relation. So in Wagner’s law there’s the
existence of causal relationship in one direction only from the gross domestic product (GDP) to the
increase of public spending generally and the government health care spending particularly, while in the
Keynes’s theories is the opposite.
This study concentrated on: Co-integration, Granger causality and the Error Correction Model, and it
found that there’s a relationship causal from the gross domestic product (GDP) to the public spending on
the health, while it’s not observed any causality from the government health care spending to the economic
growth in the short and long term, and this’s correspondent with content Wagner’s law.
