Political Economy Studies: Are they Actionable? Some Lessons from Zambia

Beuran, Monica; Raballand, Gaël; Kapoor, Kapil

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“…This helps with understanding the relationship between political and economic processes of development. 12 Not only does this article analyze issues relating to the privatization of the health sector in a health context but it also provides a wider perspective on the socioeconomic and policy contexts of Saudi Arabia. In analyzing the privatization of the health care system, this article aims to describe the following: (1) the legislative history that contributed to establishing the Saudi Arabian health care system and the legislative development toward privatization, (2) process and plans for privatization, (3) factors that contributed to privatization, and (4) the potential consequences of privatization based on existing literature.…”

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The Privatization of Health Care System in Saudi Arabia

Rahman

2020

Health�Serv�Insights

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Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 highlights the development of the health care sector through privatization. This study examines the factors that prompted the privatization of the health care sector in Saudi Arabia. This is a scoping review based on an extensive review of both published and unpublished documents. We have accessed different search engines and databases to collect various research publications, journal articles, government reports, policy and planning documents, and relevant press reports/articles. While privatization of the health care sector in Saudi Arabia has experienced an upward trend, the public health care sector remains vital to bring in overall improvements in the health of all sections of Saudi Arabia’s population. Keeping this in view, the government must strengthen its public health care sector to ensure affordable, accessible, and high-quality health care for all. This manuscript focuses on the policy aspect of the privatization of health care and is based on secondary research material. Increased privatization leads to rising expenses in health care, while adversely affecting equity and accountability in the provision of its services. Although this study is an independent analysis of Saudi Arabia’s health care system, lessons learned from this context could be used widely for policy-making in other countries with similar socioeconomic settings.

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The Privatization of Health Care System in Saudi Arabia

Rahman

2020

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“…Factories have closed down, unemployment has risen and poverty is pervasive" (Morabe, 2008). Certainly privatization did not prove to be the 'magic bullet' many might have hoped for (Collier, 2010) but latterly there has been cautious optimism about Zambia's future economic prospects (Bigsten et al, 2010;Beuran et al, 2011;World Bank, 2011).…”

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“…The outlook for copper is promising and Zambia stands to benefit provided it can bring its taxation of the industry into line with international best practice (Bigsten et al, 2010;Beuran et al, 2011;World Bank, 2011). Zambia is fortunate in that it "ranks 26th out of 79 jurisdictions worldwide for mineral potential.…”

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“…There was widespread confusion as to how local communities should go about obtaining title to the land which had been under their de facto control for decades. Certain parties would seem to have benefited handsomely from this confusion (Beuran et al, 2011) as in the unfortunate case of Chief Kaindu who discovered that "by means unknown and without his approval" some 56000 ha of his had been allocated to companies who were evicting his villagers on the grounds that they were trespassing (Reed, 2001). This is but one example of the 'drainage of surpluses from the periphery to the centre which became such a feature of the Zambian economy in the 1990s.…”

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Unbalanced growth and dependency theory in Zambia: A post-independence survey

Ingle¹

2012

Afr. J. Bus. Manage.

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This paper outlines the trajectory that Zambia's economic development followed after the country's independence in 1964 up until the full onset of privatization in 2000. This is presented in terms of both dependency theory and Hirschman's 'unbalanced growth theory'. After providing a brief overview of Zambia's economic history, the article argues that Zambia's undue reliance on mining exports afforded a classic instance of unbalanced growth which proved to be too much of a high-risk strategy to be sustainable. This is followed by an analysis of where, in the centre-periphery ordering posited by dependency theory, Zambia found itself situated. It demonstrates that Zambia provides one with a textbook case of a country that proved to be highly vulnerable to the volatility and vagaries of global capitalism.

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“…The author followed the political economy approach to analyse private sector growth fostered by allowing the market to play a prominent role [7,8]. This approach helps shed light on connections between the political and economic means of advancement [9]. The current article examines the enhancement of private sector healthcare not only within the healthcare context, but also within the wider social, economic, international, and political contexts of Saudi Arabia.…”

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Policy Discourse: Shifting the burden of healthcare from state to market in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Rahman

Salam

2021

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Saudi Arabia has modified from a predominantly free, public and comprehensive system under a welfare model to more of a mixed-economy model of healthcare. The welfare state slowly moved to a liberal model, emphasising market forces to dominate, and the private sector was trusted to provide better provision of healthcare. The country has confronting enormous problems in the health sector due to population growth, lifestyle changes, shift of disease pattern, elevated expectations, escalated healthcare costs, limited infrastructure and resources, and poor management practice in the provision of healthcare. Moreover, the government has been emphasizing on the need to bring in private sector investment to improve quality and efficiency, development of manpower, and standardization of services. As the current pattern of healthcare is unsustainable, the country is planning to restructure the present healthcare system towards institutionalizing it to meet the future challenges. The governments must make an appropriate amount of effort to build its healthcare systems by transforming and modifying the challenges faced by the society and its political-economic systems. The government should encourage equity, and fairness in the provision of healthcare.

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Political Economy Studies: Are they Actionable? Some Lessons from Zambia

Cited by 12 publications

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The Privatization of Health Care System in Saudi Arabia

The Privatization of Health Care System in Saudi Arabia

Unbalanced growth and dependency theory in Zambia: A post-independence survey

Policy Discourse: Shifting the burden of healthcare from state to market in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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