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