Changing public policy on expenditure in Namibia after independence and its impact on healthcare and education

Q3 Social Sciences

International Journal of Public Policy Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.1504/IJPP.2020.10036298

Christopher P. P. Shafuda, U. K. De

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: In this paper, we examined whether changes in fiscal measures through increasing government expenditure on education and healthcare services adopted after independence has made significant impact on the welfare of the Namibian people. Time series data from Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education of Government of Namibia, Namibia Statistics Agency and World Bank during the period between 1980 and 2015 has been used for the purpose of analysis. A comparison of growth in such expenditures, GDP and other human development indicators has been made between the pre-and post-independence periods. Finally, impacts of changes in healthcare and education expenditure on reduction in mortality, increase in life expectancy at birth, rising literacy and growth of people acquiring higher/technical education, etc. have been examined by using regression analysis. It is revealed that the Namibian people are better off now as compared to the pre-independence era. However, policy changes adopted at the time of independence has not been highly successful in transforming life of the Namibian people as expected. There are still a lot of scopes for the improvement of fiscal management in the country.

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纳米比亚独立后公共支出政策的变化及其对保健和教育的影响

在本文中，我们研究了独立后通过增加政府在教育和医疗服务方面的支出而采取的财政措施的变化是否对纳米比亚人民的福利产生了重大影响。本文采用了纳米比亚财政部、政府教育部、纳米比亚统计局和世界银行1980 - 2015年的时间序列数据。对独立前后期间这种支出、国内总产值和其他人力发展指标的增长进行了比较。最后，利用回归分析审查了保健和教育支出变化对降低死亡率、提高出生时预期寿命、提高识字率和增加接受高等/技术教育的人数等方面的影响。据透露，现在纳米比亚人民的生活比独立前要好。然而，在独立时所采取的政策变化并没有象预期的那样成功地改变纳米比亚人民的生活。我国财政管理还有很大的改进空间。

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International Journal of Public Policy Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations

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