Search Results - subject:"health share"

Cyclical Patterns in Government Health Expenditures Between 1995 and 2010

Velenyi, Edit V.; Smitz, Marc F. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

The 2008-09 global economic crises have shown that no country is immune to external challenges. When policy controls are missing or not used efficiently, crises can reverse progress even in advanced economies. This unexpected outcome has increased concerns about the ability of governments in...

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Taking Stock of Fiscal Health: Trends in Global, Regional, and Country Level Health Financing

Fleisher, Lisa; Leive, Adam; Schieber, George - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

This note analyzes levels and trends of health expenditures by country, income group, and region in the context of overall government revenue, expenditure, and GDP trends between 1995 and 2010. The study uses available data from the World Health Organization's (WHO) National Health Accounts, the...

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Subnational Health Spending and Soft Budget Constraints in OECD Countries

Crivelli, Ernesto; Leive, Adam; Stratmann, Thomas - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

Government spending on health has grown as a percent of GDP over the last 40 years in industrialized countries. Widespread decentralization of healthcare systems has often accompanied this increase in spending. In this paper, we explore the effect of soft budget constraints on subnational health...

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Reprioritizing Government Spending on Health: Pushing an Elephant Up the Stairs?

Tandon, Ajay; Fleisher, Lisa; Li, Rong; Yap, Wei Aun - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

, health's share of aggregate government expenditure in the 170 countries for which data were available averaged 12 percent …. Some of the observed differences in health's share of government spending across countries are unsurprisingly related to … differences in national income. However, significant variations exist in health's share of government spending even after …

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Why does Health Share of Income Increase over Time?

Cerda, Rodrigo - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas … - 2002

This paper deals with the view that income elasticity of health care is larger than one, as argued by empirical results on the literature. We build a theoretical model that shows that endogenous demographic transition may play a fundamental role on this result. It is argued that families must...

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