Table 5 Augmented Mean Group estimation results.

From: Climate change as a game changer: Rethinking Africa’s food security- health outcome nexus through a multi-sectoral lens

HLTH

Coefficient

Sig

HLTH

Coefficient

Sig

HLTH

Coefficient

Sig

Whole panel

Northern

Central Region panel

FDSIND

0.276***

0.000

FDSIND

0.915***

0.000

FDSIND

0.218**

0.023

Clm

-0.155***

0.000

Clm

-0.626***

0.000

Clm

-0.236***

0.007

FDSIND *Clm

0.053***

0.006

FDSIND *Clm

-0.079**

0.039

FDSIND *Clm

-0.076**

0.040

GDP

-0.186**

0.026

GDP

-2.391***

0.000

GDP

-2.225***

0.000

GHEXP

0.692***

0.000

GHEXP

0.432***

0.001

GHEXP

0.965***

0.002

Wald test

148.600***

0.000

Wald test

551.320***

0.0000

Wald test

43.820***

0.000

RMSE

0.0510

 

RMSE

0.0130

 

RMSE

0.0232

 

Eastern Regional panel

Western regional panel

Southern Regional panel

FDSIND

-0.637***

0.000

FDSIND

0.815**

0.017

FDSIND

-0.657***

0.000

Clm

-0.029**

0.019

Clm

-0.443***

0.000

Clm

-0.102***

0.000

FDSIND*Clm

0.085**

0.031

FDSIND *Clm

0.149***

0.001

FDSIND *Clm

0.090**

0.025

GDP

0.209***

0.000

GDP

-0.859***

0.000

GDP

4.905***

0.001

GHEXP

-0.254**

0.014

GHEXP

1.014***

0.000

GHEXP

0.113***

0.000

Wald test

165.730***

0.0000

Wald test

167.480***

0.000

Wald test

17.160**

0.012

RMSE

0.0753

 

RMSE

0.0328

 

RMSE

0.0335

 
  1. ***, and ** represent 1% and 5% levels of significance correspondingly, Sig. also represents significant value or probability value, RMSE stands for Root Mean Square Error.