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Health and Development
International Monetary Fund - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398460
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The U.S. Health Care Industry : Performance and Issues
International Monetary Fund - 1990
This paper describes how economic behavior in the market for health care in the United States is influenced by a range … of impediments to the functioning of the price mechanism which impart an upward bias to health care costs and imply … efficiency losses. The paper also considers how to reform the health care sector, with particular emphasis on finding a way of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396199
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Moreon the Effectiveness of Public Spendingon Health Care and Education : A Covariance Structure Model
International Monetary Fund - 2002
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399239
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Proposal to Enhance Fund Support for Low-Income Countries Hit by Public Health Disasters
International Monetary Fund - 2015
The Fund's existing facilities for low-income countries (LICs) provide a vehicle for the speedy provision of financial assistance to member countries hit by natural disasters, either through the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF) or through augmentation of the funding already being provided through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408661
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Proposal to Enhance Fund Support for Low-Income Countries Hit by Public Health Disasters : Proposed Decisions
International Monetary Fund - 2015
Health Disasters and as presented in an informal session to brief Executive Directors on January 28, 2015. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408961
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Global Monitoring Report 2013 : Rural-Urban Dynamics and the Millennium Development Goals
Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank; …
The Global Monitoring Report 2013: Rural-Urban Dynamics and the Millennium Development Goals examines rural-urban disparities in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and how urbanization, if managed well, can contribute to the attainment of these goals. The report provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010656028
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Global Monitoring Report 2009 : A Development Emergency
Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank; …
The global financial crisis, the most severe since the great depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. The financial crisis originated in the developed world, but it has spread quickly and inexorably to the developing world, sparing no country. Increasingly it appears...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010628532
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Global Monitoring Report 2010 : The MDGs after the Crisis
Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank; …
several years to emerge. For example, deteriorating health and nutrition today could lead to higher mortality rates in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010628535
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Global Monitoring Report 2008 : MDGs and the Environment, Agenda for Inclusive and Sustainable Development
Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank; …
to be met, including maternal health, infant mortality, and education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010628809
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Global Monitoring Report 2011 : Improving the Odds of Achieving the MDGs
Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank; …
This report has been prepared jointly by the staffs of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This year we are facing historic development challenges from natural disasters, to food and fuel price spikes, and profound change in the Middle East. Despite high beverage growth in...
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