|
Title:
|
Do political regime transitions in Africa Matter for Citizens’ Health Status
|
|
Author:
|
Díaz Serrano, Lluís; Sackey, Frank G.
|
|
Other authors:
|
Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia; Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Centre de Recerca en Economia Industrial i Economia Pública |
|
Abstract:
|
Africa’s quest to achieving improved health status and meeting the Millennium Development
Goals targets cannot be effectively achieved without examining the quality of leadership,
transitions and regimes and how they impact on the decisions and the policy effectiveness that
bring about improved health and living standards of the citizenry. In this paper, we study the
importance of regime transitions on government’s expenditure in health and on infant
mortality, as a development indicator. A unique panel dataset comprising 44 sub-Saharan
African countries spanning from 1970 t0 2010 containing information on political regime and
leaders was used for the study. To account for the relevance of leader characteristics in regime
transitions in our study we control for leader fixed-effects. The overall results are suggestive of a
democratic advantage in the process of achieving effective health policy outcomes for promoting
health, and hence the wellbeing of the citizens in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa in the long
run.
Keywords: Africa, health policy, public health, private health, child mortality, democracy,
autocracy, political leaders.
JEL Codes: I15, H51, O55 |
|
Publication date:
|
2016 |
|
Subject (UDC):
|
338 - Situació econòmica. Política econòmica. Gestió, control i planificació de l'economia. Producció. Serveis. Turisme. Preus |
|
Subject(s):
|
Àfrica -- Política sanitària |
|
Rights:
|
L'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
|
Pages:
|
58 p. |
|
Document type:
|
Working Paper |
|
Published by:
|
Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia
|
|
Collection:
|
Documents de treball del Departament d'Economia;2016-22
|
|
Share:
|
|
