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Abstract
The study investigated the impact of Malaria on Labour productivity in Nigeria; A study of tertiary institutions in Imo state. The objective of the study is to examine the impact of malaria on Labour Productivity. The study used coded data obtained from a field survey conducted with a well-structured questionnaire. The model have Depletion of workers "Mortality" (DOW), Loss of man-hours (LMH) and Working capacity (WCM) as explanatory variable while Labour Productivity (LAB-Prod) as dependent variable. The mean response of the respondents were calculated and compared with the criterion mean to determine if the question is positive or negative. Ordinary Least Square estimate was used to analyze the impact of the Independent Variables on the dependent variable. The result revealed that DOW and WCM have positive effect on Lab-Prod while LMH has negative effect on Lab-prod. The OLS result also found LMH, WCM to have significant impact on Lab-Prod while DOW is found to have insignificant impact on Lab-Prod. The adjusted R2 (0.72) shows that the model is very robust and has a good fit. The D-statistics showed that there is no presence of autocorrelation. The F-statistics showed that the explanatory variables jointly affect the dependent variable. Thus, we recommend that the Federal Government through its ministry of education should initiate policies and programmes that will build a good hospital in every institutions of higher learning to enable staffs, staffs children, students, and any biological relations of staffs to have a quality medical care at a reduced cost. This will help enhance the productivity of staffs in tertiary institutions in the country.