Institutional dimensions of veterinary services reforms: responses to structural adjustment in Northern Ghana
| Autor: | Naaminong Karbo, Owuraku Sakyi-Dawson, K. Amankwah, Simon J. Oosting, A.J. van der Zijpp, Cees Leeuwis, Laurens Klerkx |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Veterinary medicine Service delivery framework world Developing country WASS Animal Production Systems animal health-services Economics Human resources Service (business) Dierlijke Productiesystemen business.industry Structural adjustment economics Public good privatization innovation developing-countries Technologie and Innovatie WIAS Knowledge Technology and Innovation Normative systems Kennis Allocative efficiency delivery provision business constraints Agronomy and Crop Science Kennis Technologie and Innovatie |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 12 (2014) 3 International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 12(3), 296-315 |
| ISSN: | 1473-5903 |
| Popis: | This study examines the effect of the post-1980s' structural adjustment reforms on the delivery and smallholders' use of veterinary services in two districts in Northern Ghana. Our analytical framework distinguishes between allocative, cognitive, and normative institutions to analyse the effects on four areas of service delivery: (1) prevention; (2) clinical services; (3) provision of drugs, vaccines, and other products; and (4) human health protection. The reforms were accompanied by substantial reductions in the allocation of both financial and human resources to public veterinary services; this in turn induced fragmentation in service supply, preferential service to progressive (or wealthy) farmers, and non-adherence to international protocols for livestock health reporting. A few communities self-organized to access veterinary services. Thus, the reforms triggered changes mostly in formal allocative institutions, but these triggered further changes in informal allocative, cognitive, and normative institutions that structured the impact of the reforms. The paper concludes that institutional change is not a one-off outcome of an intervention. Rather, such interventions trigger new dynamics that policy-makers and analysts need to take into account. This requires regular monitoring of anticipated and unanticipated effects of privatization and decentralization to enable policy adjustment. |
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