Financing Government’s ‘Cinderella’ Establishing the need to mobilise additional sources of revenue to fund the Kenyan healthcare sector

Is health in Kenya adequately financed? Relatedly, is there a need for additional sources of revenue to fund health? The limited resources that are available to the Kenyan government are prioritised in the budget that earmarks how much is to be allocated to each public sector. Regrettably, health financing has been on a reducing scale and the government is considering ways to broaden its revenue base for financing health. This policy brief picks up on the argument of limited resources and posits Islamic taxation as an alternative source of revenue potentially available to the Kenyan government for financing health.
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