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Even if you concede that point we're left with the question of why midwifery is especially risky in Ethiopia. Do they not have access to basis safety equipment?
by avar 7y ago
Even if you concede that point we're left with the question of why midwifery is especially risky in Ethiopia. Do they not have access to basis safety equipment?
Paying a government-funded profession based on risk creates perverse incentives. You'd have midwives campaigning against introducing surgical gloves because they've got a family to feed and don't want to lose the risk pay.
- oarsinsync 7y ago> Paying a government-funded profession based on risk creates perverse incentives This is horrendous and depressingly, probably true. It's important to see the incentive structure from both sides and to try and consider the unintended consequences of seemly good actions. That doesn't detract from the position that midwives probably deserve higher pay. Tragically, the system we live in is that those that help increase capital get more pay, while those that actually do the meaningful foundational work (help bringing people to life, saving lives, teaching, all the things required to actually have a workforce that can generate capital) don't get paid enough.