Prof. Maureen Mackintosh (The Open University)

XI SOAS Industrial Development and Policy (IDP) Lecture.

Health sectors are big buyers of industrial commodities, so their funding, purchasing and market structures influence industrial development. Since health sectors are strongly shaped by policy, while manufacturing suppliers typically rely on domestic demand at least for initial growth, national health policies are necessarily also national industrial policies. Assuring universalist health care is one of the most inclusive interventions open to governments, so health-linked industries offer a potential

terrain for inclusive industrialisation. Yet in many low and middle income countries (LMICs), innovation and industrial development in health tend to be disequalising, given the current political economy of LMIC health sectors. The lecture uses evidence from recent work by Tanzanian, Kenyan and UK researchers to outline incentive structures in East African health sectors that interact with industrial development to determine its inclusionary or exclusionary nature, and draws implications for policy.

Maureen Mackintosh (Innovation, Knowledge and Development Research Centre, The Open University)

Organised by the Industrial Development and Policy Research Cluster –
SOAS IDP snd the SOAS Department of Economics

Speaker(s): Prof. Maureen Mackintosh (The Open University), Dr. Antonio Andreoni (SOAS)

Event Date:

08 March 2017

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