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Macro-Fiscal Implications of Health Care Reform in Advanced and Emerging Economies
International Monetary Fund - 2010
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...
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Macro-Fiscal Implications of Health Care Reform in Advanced and Emerging Economies : Case Studies
International Monetary Fund - 2010
This supplement provides country case studies on public health care expenditures and reform experiences in eight … broader approach and examine reform experiences and challenges during the past two decades rather than focusing exclusively on … episodes of successful reform. The lessons from the case studies for other countries are integrated into the main Board paper …
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The U.S. Health Care Industry : Performance and Issues
International Monetary Fund - 1990
efficiency losses. The paper also considers how to reform the health care sector, with particular emphasis on finding a way of …
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Report of the executive directors
1969
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Balance of payments concepts and definitions
1976 - 2. ed. Reprinted
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Staff Report on the Multilateral Consultation on Global Imbalances with China, the Euro Area, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and the United States
International Monetary Fund - 2007
Multilateral Consultations are a new tool of multilateral surveillance for the IMF, designed to foster action-oriented debate and policy actions on a problem of systemic or regional importance. The first multilateral consultation focused on facilitating the resolution of global imbalances while...
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United States : 2005 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Staff Statement; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion
International Monetary Fund - 2005
The 2005 Article IV Consultation for the United States reports that robust productivity growth and high corporate profits have contributed to a strong rebound in business investment and some acceleration in employment. The financial sector appears well positioned to provide continued support to...
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On the Estimation of Term Structure Models and An Application to the United States
International Monetary Fund - 2010
This paper discusses the estimation of models of the term structure of interest rates. After reviewing the term structure models, specifically the Nelson-Siegel Model and Affine Term- Structure Model, this paper estimates the terms structure of Treasury bond yields for the United States with...
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Deconstructing the International Business Cycle : Why Does a U.S. Sneeze Give the Rest of the World a Cold?
International Monetary Fund - 2010
The 2008 crisis underscored the interconnectedness of the international business cycle, with U.S. shocks leading to the largest global slowdown since the 1930s. We estimate spillover effects across major advanced country regions in a structural VAR (SVAR) using pre-crisis data. Our new method...
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