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"When social goals meet economic goals: the double dividend of extending access to healthcare for farmers in Uganda" by Tankari, Mahamadou Roufahi, Ousmane Badiane and Jean-Marc Montaud 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 appear as a more effective strategies. This article explores how an improvement of health subsidies policy in Uganda experiment 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 CGE model encompasses five groups of households (3 urban, 2 rural), a government agent, an agricultural sector (15 activities), a non-agricultural sector (21 activities), and a health sector divided into two types of sub-sectors: a profit sector (3 activities) and a non-profit sector (3 activities). The internal logic of the model is fairly standard. On the supply side, each activity combines fixed capital with a composite (skilled and unskilled) labour factor. Incomes are distributed to different agents on the basis of their factor endowments. The government receives taxes too. On the demand side, households’ consumption reflects a linear expenditure system function, and demand from the government is assumed to be exogenous. The prices, wage rate, and exchange rate provide the closure mechanisms for, respectively, product markets, the skilled labour market, and the external accounts market. Nominal investment is savings driven on the capital market. The main originalities of the CGE model rely in fact on the ways the agricultural sector is specified and the health topics are introduced. The MS model is connected to the CGE model through the labour market using a sequential top-down approac... |
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- Calibration and parameter estimation - Economic analysis of poverty - Health - Africa (East) |
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