Education and health expenditure trends in the Northeastern states of India, 1991-2019

Globally, government expenditure increases over time due to the provision of public goods and services. It is well recognized from the literature that an increase in public expenditure on education and health showed a varied outcome. In this context, this study provides an overview of trends in education, health expenditure, and economic growth across the eight states of India, known as Northeastern states. This analysis used panel data from 1991-2019 from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI). Methods such as cointegration and dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS) is applied to examine the relationship. Finding shows that health expenditure increases the economic growth for the northeastern states and there is long run relationship between education, health and economic growth.