on the cyclical patterns of government health spending. This descriptive analysis, which covers 183 countries between … 1995 and 2010, provides empirical evidence on the cyclicality of government health expenditures, using panel data from a … global macro database, the fiscal health database. The objective is to propose user-friendly diagnostic approaches in this …

reprioritization, one of the modalities for realizing fiscal space for health. Theory and cross-country empirical analyses do not … provide clear, cut explanations for the observed variations in government prioritization of health. Standard economic theory …Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy …

target the right policies and programs to maximize the health and social impacts of Europe’s HIV responses and get higher …

report also considers the rationale for conditioning the transfers on the use of specific health and education services by …" between parents and their children; or if there are large externalities to investments in health and education. Political …