The paper analyzes the activity of medical organizations in Russian health insurance system. A conception of “exit”, “voice” and “loyalty” by A. Hirschman is used to reveal the position of health care consumers . On the basis of researches that have been conducted in 2003, 2005 and...

The paper addresses efficiency and inequality issues under the conditions of increasing competition in the health care sector in Russia. Co-existence of state-funded mandatory and market-based voluntary medical insurance as well as high proportion of direct out-of-pocket payments create the...

In this paper we examine determinants of the quality of secondary education for making informed policy decisions at the levels of student / family, school, country's education system institutions and macroeconomic indicators. The quality of education is estimated by the outcomes of the latest...

This policy paper highlights key theoretical issues related to the possibility of competition in provision of health care services and provides their illustrations for Russian health care system. Executive summary is available at pp. 48.