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This paper analyses the effect of fiscal decentralisation on health outcomes in China using a panel data set with nationwide county-level data. We find that counties in more fiscally decentralised provinces have lower infant mortality rates than counties where the provincial government remains...
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financialization possible. Here, it will be demonstrated that the dramatic transfer of wealth from the industrialized, capitalist world …, and petrocapital-fuelled changes to financial practices laid the foundations of modern finance and the neoliberal world …
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Health services are largely tax-financed in the United Kingdom and account for 14 per cent of general government spending. This paper analyses how the National Health Service (NHS) has been dealing with the associated expenditure pressures in the pre-1990 set-up and during the “quasi-market”...
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This article sheds light on the role of subnational governments in health systems across OECD countries. The views in this article show a move away from traditional measures of decentralisation, such as the share of subnational government expenditure of total expenditure, to measures capturing a...
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Overall, the health of the Irish population has improved substantially during recent decades and is quite good compared with other OECD countries. However, spending is elevated, partly reflecting a system that is strongly based on hospitals. Population ageing is exacerbating spending pressures....
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The global history of oil politics, from World War I to the present, can teach us much about world politics, climate … profits. It represented a huge shift in international order. Yet, the textbook explanation for how world politics works …, this book promises to reshape our understanding of the forces driving change in world politics. …
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