Black market trade:
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Date
1995Author
Mwabu, Germano
wang'ombe, Joseph
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Provision of mortuary services free of char ge in a government hospital in rural Kenya is found to have led to a black market trade in these services. The principal participants in the market were the mortuary attendants and bereaved families. A method is developed for determining black market expenditures on mortuary services at a government hospital. On average, a bereaved family spent about US $2.30 on mortuary services. Burial expenses were also substantial, amounting to some US $75 per bereaved family. It is shown that free provision of mortuary services in government hospitals has a hidden cost, that could exceed the fee that users can be expected to pay openly
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Applied Economics Letters, 1996,3,213-215Publisher
Department of Economics, Kenyatta University Department of Community Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi
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- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10377]