Paper Title
ASSESSING THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN INDIA

Abstract
This paper attempts to analyse Antimicrobial Resistance in India from an economic perspective through two metrics: the relationship between the mortality rates (male adult mortality per 1,000 male adults) and the GDP per employee (constant in PPP dollars for the year 2021) and the relationship between antibiotic resistance percentageand out-of-pocket Expenditure (% current Health Expenditure). Using a 32-year span of available data for the first analysis and a 22-year span in the second analysis of the research, this work embraces the use of statistical analysis in identifying certain patterns or insights from the data collected for the study. Another aspect studied relates to the link between health and economic development, with the data hinting at working individuals’ productivity as higher mortality rates are associated with lower GDP per person employed. There isan increase in out-of-pocket expenditure of the people on health due to increase in the resistance of the antibiotics in the population. These findings reinforce the importance of strategic policy interventionin reducing the economic impact of AMR and improve health status in India, which enhances the prospects of efficient healthcare funding and effective consumption of antibiotics. Keywords - Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), Economic Impact, Mortality Rates, GDP per Person Employed, Out-of-Pocket Expenditure, Developing countries, Healthcare Costs, Vector Autoregression (VAR), Granger Causality, Public Health Economics and Healthcare Policy