Economic policy, does It help life expectancy? an african evidence of the role of economic policy on longevity.
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This paper evaluates some factors that affect longevity in Africa, with the aim of offering an insight
on how government economic policy and consumption spending affect the lives of people in
developing countries. Government economic policy was found to be contributing in a negative
manner to life expectancy in the countries in our sample. It was also found that apathy between the
civil service (the embodiment of institutions) and political office holders to be the greatest
stumbling block against the success of governmental economic policy, this creates a hole in
institutions since they remain the pipe through which revenue is disbursed and policies are
implemented for the general good of the populace. After interacting institution with economic
policy economic policy had significant effect on life expectancy it was likely that institutions were
either circumvented or ignored, leading to possible short comings on the overall effect that
government economic policy would have had on life expectancy.
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HB Economic Theory