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Bosnia and Herzegovina; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper—Mid-Term Development Strategy
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005598984
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Slovak Republic; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This Selected Issues paper on the Slovak Republic reviews efficiency and reform of the health sector. The immediate … challenge for the health care system in the Slovak Republic is to improve health sector outcomes while containing public health … spending. The Slovak health care system is decentralized, and the central government has limited control over decisions by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242841
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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 health spending in advanced economies by drawing on a range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410082
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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 … success in containing public health spending during the past 30 years. For the emerging economies, the case studies take a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410083
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Côte d’Ivoire; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
Côte d’Ivoire's government decided on the National Development Plan to give a new impetus to its development policy. This new strategy is based on an ambitious and realistic recovery and development program centered on private and public investment. The institutional monitoring framework for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244156
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Albania; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-Joint Staff Advisory Note
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This Joint Staff Advisory Note focuses on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Albania. The note analyzes the National Strategy for Development and Integration (NSDI) program, which represents a significant improvement in process over the previous PRSP. The note discusses that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245812
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The Macroeconomic Impact of Healthcare Financing Alternatives; Reform Options forhong Kong Sar
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825995
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Nigeria; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Progress Report: Joint Staff Advisory Note
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This paper discusses key findings of the annual progress report on implementing the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS)—Nigeria’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. The progress report highlights key accomplishments and shortcomings as well as outstanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243873
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Israel; Detailed Assessment of Observance of International Association of Insurance Supervisors Insurance Core Principles
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
A full assessment of Israel’s compliance with the Insurance Core Principles (ICPs) of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) is presented. The Minister of Finance bears the political responsibility for supervisory oversight of the Israeli insurance system. Nonlife...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244032
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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