ArticleJournal of public economics2017
Governance and the effectiveness of public health subsidies: Evidence from Ghana, Kenya and Uganda.
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- Getting essential health products to their end users: subsidize, but how much?Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2014Article
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Distributing subsidized health products through existing health infrastructure could substantially and cost-effectively improve health in sub-Saharan Africa. There is, however, widespread concern that poor governance - in particular, limited health worker accountability - seriously undermines the effectiveness of subsidy programs. We audit targeted bednet distribution programs to quantify the extent of agency problems. We find that around 80% of the eligible receive the subsidy as intended, and up to 15% of subsidies are leaked to ineligible people. Supplementing the program with simple financial or monitoring incentives for health workers does not improve performance further and is thus not cost-effective in this context.
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