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- Title
Societal Trust, Transparency and Accountability in Fiscal Policy During National Emergencies: A Reflection on the Unfolding Global Corona Virus Pandemic in Africa.
- Authors
Waris, Attiya
- Abstract
Financing health care is growing in importance as more and more researchers, governments and other stakeholders see that public health goods and services need to be financed. This work is intended to understand what the underlying problems maybe in getting people to understand the magnitude of national and global emergencies in health and how to get them to obey state and global directives which are for their own safety from a fiscal perspective. Here we show that there is a breakdown in communication between states and their societies that is undermining the ability of African states to guide their people to follow health and safety rules. The findings provide a recommendation that an improvement in transparency and accountability will not only result in better management of emergencies but also build better long term fiscal legitimacy and management of the current and future emergencies and enhance societal trust.
- Subjects
GOVERNMENT accountability; MEDICAL care; PUBLIC health; FISCAL policy; ECONOMIC policy; PUBLIC finance
- Publication
African Review, 2024, Vol 50, Issue 4, p513
- ISSN
0856-0056
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/1821889x-bja10058