Public Policy Making in Zimbabwe

According to World health organization (WHO), a state of social, mental and physical well-being and the absence of disease is defined as a health (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2016a). The main aim of healthcare system is to provide health services to the people including permanent residents, tourists, temporary, citizens and students. The primary purpose of a healthcare system is to promote, maintain and re-establish health. The Healthcare system of a country includes emergency care, diagnosis of diseases, health advancement and maintenance, treatment of chronic and acute term diseases ( Health Education and Training Institute, n.d). In the past, doctors were not well trained and paid and the access to GP’s was not affordable

Historically, the South African economy has been largely unstable mostly due to political issues. Although, considering its counterparts, South Africa shows the most promise for economic development and growth (Jordaan, 2010 pg.5). In 1990 South Africa entered the global market after overcoming major political issues such as apartheid. Many economists agree that the changes the South African government has made to be able to compete globally, are for the better (Wessel, 2007). In the article “CAPITAL: Globalization Brings South

Simplification and centralization of foreign investment pre-approval procedures have become commonplace in developing countries in recent years.

Foreign investment is an important part of our economy. There are many benefits to foreign investment in any country. It would be very difficult or impossible today to close the doors to foreign investment. The fact is foreign investment is responsible for providing a great deal of needed capital in this country. This capital is an asset in the continuous modernization and expansion of our manufacturing and other productive facilities. Without investment in our factories and processes we would fall behind in the world market. These investments lead to increased competitiveness within the international community.

There is no universal fix to the complexities of each country and what they face with regards to their health care needs. Health care is a fundamental need among all peoples. Each country will have to work on solving the disparities that exist in access of care, funding of care, and availability of care. Because we now find ourselves facing the dilemma of fighting many infectious diseases once thought to be under control, we must work with all countries around the world. Every country faces the potential of an outbreak of a disease like SARS or a terrorism strike involving biological or chemical agents. Global initiatives to improve the health of nations across the board regardless of resources in these nations will benefit all. We need to continue with consistent and comprehensive measures to ensure health equity to all (Williams & Torrens, 2010).

The political and economical issues spread beyond the government and to the community in Zimbabwe. For 15 years prior, the economy is Zimbabwe had been slowly fading but after the recent election the unemployment rate rose to eighty percent (“Govt” 1, 2). The number for jobless people increased to a massive number of nearly 200,000 making the eleventh year high up to 3.33 million (“Bankruptcies” 1, 2). This made it extremely challenging for families to afford things like education, health care, and even housing. As a result, this forced people to turn to crime and corruption just to try and make a living. While the citizens were turning to crime, the government was wasting all it’s money for personal needs. It was also discovered that the government had been paying more than 40,000 to what was referred to as “ghost workers” appearing on their payroll (“Govt” 1, 2). As a result of this, Zimbabwe was part of a huge fraud situation with the Nigerian Deposit Insurance. They were accounted for seventy-four cents for all fraud counts (“Our” 1). Soon after this scandal, Zimbabwe had no choice but to declare bankruptcy making the country record, 1082 bankruptcies as of 2008 (“Bankruptcies” 1, 2). After the fraud situation the government tried to cover up by creating an Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). The government was interested in fixing

Yet for these countries, world trade in reality plays a major role. In many Sub-Saharan countries, foreign trade (measured in terms of imports and exports) represents more than fifty percent of their GDPs. This is due to a lack of infrastructure and machinery to process the available raw materials which leaves countries overdependent on imports, not adequately balanced by corresponding exports. This dependence on finished imports would be curtailed if these nations had enough capital to purchase machinery to process their raw-materials and sell the finished product locally or export them. However, in order to obtain enough capital to fulfill such drastic projects, they need outside help in the form of private investors.

The Angolan government has lowered the health-budget over-and-over again. With the government relying solely on its oil production, once the oil “runs out” the income of Angola will decrease rapidly. It truly does not take a large amount of new discoveries or money to prevent, easily curable, diseases such as: malaria, typhoid fever, or malnutrition. Nurses that work in any hospital of Angola should be trained, correctly. Many children are dying due to a small group of officials abusing their power to keep the money for themselves. Though there are still many technicalities, if all nations step up as one, in order to eliminate poverty and prevent deaths from curable diseases. If those with power continue to make poor decisions, the end result will not be positive. What can you do to help this

The fear of investing money and not getting a fair return on investment was a big part of that risk. As the American company set foot into Ghana, people’s focus grew and the desire to take a share of that

In reality no U.S. law can block lending by these international financial institutions. The boards of these institutions decide on lending to member countries, and the U.S. does not exercise a veto in any of the boards”. Though when asked “to what extent international policy played on the continual struggle and poverty in Zimbabwe?” decedent of Obi Egbuna, a liberator for the people of Zimbabwe, explained the situation. “The diplomatic work of Ambassador Andrew Young, made an agreement, representing the carter administration was broken between Britain, the United States and Zimbabwe. Between 1980 and 1990 the land was supposed to be transferred, that the Europeans have occupied, to the indigenous people. Carter and Margret Thatcher signed this agreement, Ronal Regain comes in immediately states that he is under no obligation to honor the agreement since he wasn’t an original broker of the agreement and others who came behind him also didn’t honor the agreement. So what happens is that we’re 20 years removed from that ever getting fixed. President Mugabi saw intense criticism that this issue needed to be addressed, and in 2000, their backs were against the wall and they aggressively created the “Land Replantation Program”. And the response from the United States was to create the ZDERA sanctions in 2001. Britain of course initiated it and the United states soon followed suit. No member of the professional black coccus voted against the sanctions, the same sanctions

In today’s world of global trading, multinational corporations that are looking to expand on profits turn out to operate against the welfares of the world’s poorest countries. In the documentary, “Stealing Africa,” the film director, Christoffer Guldbrandsen, brings forward the concerning economic attention of the country of Zambia, located in South Africa. Zambia is known as the third largest copper reserves across the world, owned by multinational corporations globally. Due to such a heavy abundance of natural resources in Africa, the majority of the economy of Zambia revolves around the mining industry, which is like the backbone of the country. As the natural resources in Zambia remain rich, multinational companies, specifically Glencore, grew in investments resulting in the guilt of tax avoidance and undervaluing copper, which resulted in a downfall for the revenue of copper in the nation of Zambia. Guldbrandsen talks about the country of Zambia’s abundance of natural resources, yet their struggle to remain above the poverty line, as it is ranked in the top 20 poorest countries. Guldbrandsen insists that due to privatization starting from the year of 2001, the mining industry in Zambia has taken a downfall. Although the country of Zambia is very rich in resources, maintains the top copper mine in the world, a person a day lives below a dollar and almost eighty percent of the population remains unemployed.

The superimposing factor that gives South Africa such an advantage over other prospective African business environments is that it possesses of a very powerful and sophisticated vantage-point geographically. South Africa is strategically located for manufacturing and exportation into several regions globally and can be an unmitigated platform for MNC’s who may be interested in a venture within this region. The important advantages include regional competitiveness, combined with reduced operational costs and a significantly prominent market access (Safrica.info, 2011).

The government of china is very keen to encourage foreign investors, because foreign companies are regarded as relatively good corporate

The country is a key investor within the East African commmunity, while the largest chunk of intraregional trade is due to Kenya. However, economic

5. Foreign investment was encouraged, and the steel industry was part of the high priority industries for foreign investments and implying automatic approval for foreign equity participation up to 100 percent.