Roland Craigwell|Danielle Bynoe|Shane Lowe
The effectiveness of government expenditure on education and health care in the Caribbean
University of the West Indies|University of the West Indies|Barbados Community College
purpose investment human development considered means improving quality life sustaining economic growth caribbean purpose paper assess efficacy public spending health care education evaluating life expectancy school enrolment rates countries designmethodologyapproach using data set containing 19 caribbean countries period 1995 2007 health care 1980 2009 education panel ordinary least squares model employed findings results revealed health expenditure significant positive effect health status spending education appreciable influence either primary secondary school enrolment originalityvalue unlike previous caribbean research paper explores variable quality education system pupilteacher ratio also seeks update existing caribbean literature employing data 1980 2009