Abstract
This paper investigates the role of poverty in maternal health-output growth nexus in sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. The study employs panel autoregressive distributed lag model (PARDL) and analysed a balanced panel data covering 21 countries from 1990 to 2018. The empirical results show that the coefficient on interaction between poverty and maternal health tend to be statistically significant both in the long run and short run. Although, the direction of the impact is positive in the long run but negative in the short run. This finding emphasizes that increased consumption expenditure reduces poverty which will in turn ameliorate maternal mortality rate leading to better maternal health in the long run.
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