ARDHI UNIVERSITY

Title: Dr.

Name: Arnold Mathias Kihaule

School: School of Spatial Planning and Social Sciences (SSPSS)

Department:  Economics and Social Studies

Role: Senior Lecturer

Current Summarized CV:

Arnold M. Kihaule (PhD) is a senior lecturer at the Department of Economics and Social Studies in the School of Spatial Planning and Social Sciences at Ardhi University, since 2015. He holds BA (Econ), UDSM, MA (Econ) UDSM lic.rer.reg, Technical University, Karlsruhe, PhD (Economics and Finance) Curtin University of Technology. His areas of research interest are health economics and monetary theory and policy. Moreover, he has done consultancies in the areas of local economic development and banking sector.

 Research and Publications:

Completed research:

Determinants of Rural Household Purchase of Micro Health Insurance plans in Tanzania, 2016, research funded by African Economic Research Consortium; Determinant of Erdely Households Membership in Micro Health insurance and Utilization in Moshi District, research funded by Sida, 2018;

Ongoing research:

Financing water infrastructure in urban area through development financial institutions in Tanzania.

Published papers

1. The impact of economic policy shocks on the outcomes of the fiscal adjustment policies in Tanzania”, published as a working paper in Munich Personal RePEC Archive, (MPRA);  Kihaule A. (2015)
2. Impact of Micro Health Insurance Plans on Protecting Households Against Catastrophic Health Spending in Tanzania”, GST Journal of Nursing and Health Care, Vol.2 No.2, Journal ID 40743, ISSN 2345-718X, pp 71-77 August, Kihaule, A. Francis, T. & Ngasa, C (2019).
3. The Impact of the Elderly Coffee Farmers membership in Micro-Health Insurance on Access and Utilization of Health services in Moshi District, Tanzania. Research Journal of Public Health, Vol. 5 No. 10.

Contact:

Email: arnold.kihaule@aru.ac.tz

Mobile: 0752930303