POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (CAR) AND HEALTH STATE OF THE CAMEROON POPULATION

Ludwick Ndokang and André Dumas Tsambou ()
Additional contact information
André Dumas Tsambou: University of Yaoundé II –SOA/CAMEROON

JOURNAL OF LIFE ECONOMICS, 2015, vol. 2, issue 2, 113-129

Abstract: Since independence (1960s), African countries are regularly animated by crisis (political alternation, ethnic conflicts, tribalism, wars, coup d’états). These plagues that consume African society have serious impact on the economic growth of these countries, and diversely affect neighboring countries known for their relative stability. Thus, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of political crises in Central African Republic (CAR) on the Cameroon health performances. We used Nafziger crude mortality model based on famine, conflict and population displacement. Data used are from the BEAC Documentation service, the UNESCO database and the World Bank (World Development Indicators 2010). The econometric analysis of the model shows a strong contribution of the critical political situation in CAR on the degradation of the health state of people living in Cameroon. Several reasons justify this argument: the influx of refugees from one country to another and the dissemination of diseases amplified by the precariousness of their living condition on the Cameroon territory. This proofs that political instability in Central African Republic (CAR) negatively affects the health state of the Cameroonian population.

Keywords: health; performance; health; state; Political; instability; political; instability; index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ratingacademy.com.tr/ojs/index.php/jlecon/article/view/42/33 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jle:journl:v:2:y:2015:i:2:p:113-129

DOI: 10.15637/jlecon.73

Access Statistics for this article

JOURNAL OF LIFE ECONOMICS is currently edited by Ozge Uysal SAHIN

More articles in JOURNAL OF LIFE ECONOMICS from Holistence Publications
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Mehmet ÅžAHÄ°N ().