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With much healthcare publicly funded, Hong Kong's rapidly aging population will significant raise fiscal pressure over coming decades. We ask what the implications are of meeting these costs by public funding, or private funding voluntarily or through mandates. Our simulations suggest that...
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Poverty risk is most marked for children, displaced persons and returnees, unemployed, and people with low education. Basic goals of the macroeconomic framework of the mid-term development strategy of Bosnia and Herzegovina are to reduce the overall public expenditures, lower the public debt,...
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government spending on health care and education, and social indicators. Unlike previous studies, where social indicators are … used as proxies for the unobservable health and education status of the population, this paper estimates a latent variable …
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This paper provides an analysis of the developments in public health spending over the past 40 years, as well as … projections of public health spending for 50 advanced and emerging countries over 2011-50. The paper also quantifies the effects … of specific health reforms on the growth of public health spending in advanced economies by drawing on a range of …
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This supplement provides country case studies on public health care expenditures and reform experiences in eight … success in containing public health spending during the past 30 years. For the emerging economies, the case studies take a …
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years in the pages of F&D looks at the important links between health and economic progress. Articles range over a variety … of topics, from the Millennium Development Goals and their health-related targets for 2015 to the economics of tobacco … property aspects of health care …
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The Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade sets out a conceptual and measurement framework for digital trade which aligns …
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internationally. The Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade sets out a conceptual and measurement framework for digital trade that aligns …
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The Report evaluates statistical practices relating to the measurement of international capital flows. In particular …
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