When social goals meet economic goals: the double dividend of extending access to healthcare for farmers in Uganda

Mahamadou Tankari, Ousmane Badiane and Jean-Marc Montaud

No 332430, Conference papers from Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project

Abstract: In recent years, the need for a better access to health services has become a social objective in many sub-Saharan African countries that seek to achieve the Millennium Goals for Development. Yet such pursuits raise questions about the appropriate balance between the social goals and economic objectives of poverty reduction policies, such that measures promoting agricultural growth might become more effective strategies. This article explores how an improvement of health subsidies policy in Uganda might meet both these social and economic goals. Focusing on the relationship between farmers’ health and agricultural productivity, we use a computable general equilibrium model and a non-parametric micro-simulation model to assess the effect of this policy. The results show that the policy is likely to improve both households’ access to health care and growth outcomes. They also show that in a context marked by scarce budgetary resources, it is possible to maximise the impact of this policy by allocating subsidies toward rural households or toward the categories of health care with the greatest impacts on farmers’ productivity.

Keywords: Health Economics and Policy; Food Security and Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27
Date: 2013
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