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In many developed countries attempts to reform physicians payment schemes have failed. To analyze some of the difficulties, this paper studies reforms of payment schemes in situations such as the physician agency, where the quality of the good produced is imperfectly observable by the payer. We...
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passage of investigators. The analytical model of the use of health services developed by R. Andersen has been adapted for our … households in Dakar, especially the poorest. The non-use of health services is positively associated with individual … characteristics such as education level, the level of social network and the level of health literacy of the mother / guardian of the …
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and growth are endogenous. The authorities may provide two types of public services, public health and environmental … poverty trap. We examine changes in public policies: increasing public intervention on health or environmental maintenance …We analyze the interplay between longevity, pollution and growth. We develop an OLG model where longevity, pollution …
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and long-lasting effects on demography and growth. According to the estimates presented, GDP per working age population …In this paper, we first, perform a quantitative assessment of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on growth. Second, we …, population and labor force. That is, we disentangle the effect on the different sources of short and long run growth. Using a …
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This article aims at investigating the interplay between environmental quality, health and development. We consider an … poverty trap characterized by a low level of human capital and deteriorated environmental quality. Our results are consistent …
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(Maharashtra, India). Drawing upon the capability approach and the concept of disadvantage, we define equity as the need to focus … patronage relations and institutional discriminatory practices that perpetuate categorical inequalities. Addressing equity …
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Since the 1990s, poverty and the ways to reducing it have become a central paradigm in development economics, not only …). Indeed, after WWII, thinking on development was focused on growth. A major shift occurred in the late 1990s, which has … consisted in the replacement of 'growth' or 'development' as a goal of policymakers and international institutions and a central …
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-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …
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Domestic Product (GDP) modelling in order to improve the forecasting accuracy. Our approach is based on multivariate k … compute the quarter GDP on the Euro-zone, comparing our approach, with GDP obtained when we estimate the monthly indicators …
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regression). More precisely, lower GDP elasticity is explained by an exogenous shock linked to health system policies in the mid …Using the French annual database (1950-2009), we conducted a time-series analysis to explain the role of GDP per capita … on HCE (Health Care Expenditure) per capita taking into account structural breaks and non-linearity in the long …
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