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Global Health Econ Sustain Imports of essential medical products

Figure 2. Products with negative growth in imports in 2019 – 2020.

Figure 3. Products with positive growth in imports in 2019 – 2020.

Figure 5. The trend of intra-and extra-EU imports measured in weight.

the natural logarithm of the GDP per capita of country
“j” in year “t”; Ln(Pop65) is the natural logarithm of the
j,t
population aged over 65 years in country “j” in year “t”;
Figure 4. Products with positive and negative growth in imports in 2019 Ln(Beds) is the natural logarithm of the number of hospital
– 2020. j,t
beds in country “j” in year “t”; HICP is the Harmonised
it
Index of Consumer Price for Health of country “I” in year
Ln(M) = β + β Ln(GDP ) + β Ln(Pop65) + β “t”; Dextra is a dummy variable that takes the value 1 if
2
pc j,t
0
i,j,t
1
Ln(Beds) + β HICP + β Dextra + β D2020 + ɛ j,t (I) 3
j,t 5 it 4 5 it the imports come from countries outside the EU while the
where Ln(M) is the napierian logarithm of imports value 0 indicates otherwise; D2020 is a dummy variable
i,j,t
of product “i” by country “j” in year “t”; Ln(GDP )) is that takes the value 1 if the imports were made in the year
pc j,t
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