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Moreon the Effectiveness of Public Spendingon Health Care and Education : A Covariance Structure Model
International Monetary Fund - 2002
Using data for a sample of developing and transition countries, this paper estimates the relationship between 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399239
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396199
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Health and Development
International Monetary Fund - 2004
The past century has been marked by rapid advances in human welfare. People in most parts of the world are healthier and are living longer. While this trend is likely to continue, hopes are fading in some regions where progress slowed or stopped in the1990s, primarily as a result of the AIDS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398460
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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
This paper sets forth the proposed decisions and related legal instruments that are needed to implement the transformation of the the Post-Catastrophe Debt Relief Trust (the 'PCDR Trust') into the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (the 'CCR Trust' or 'Trust'), as described in the Proposal...
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Italy : Assessing Competition and Efficiency in the Banking System
International Monetary Fund - 2007
The paper assesses the degree of banking competition and efficiency in Italy?over time as well as compared to that in … other countries, such as France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper finds competition in …. The degree of competition falls within the range of estimates for a set of comparator countries. Greater contestability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400137
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Competition in Indian Banking
International Monetary Fund - 2005
It is widely perceived that competition in the Indian banking sector has increased since the inception of the financial … competitive conditions and earns revenues as if under monopolistic competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400691
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Competitiveness in the Baltics in the Run-Up to EU Accession
International Monetary Fund - 2003
This paper analyzes competitiveness in the Baltics in the run-up to European Union accession. Several factors appear to have driven movements in equilibrium real exchange rates in the Baltics since the start of the transition process. In the earlier years of transition, price liberalization,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407140
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Republic of Kazakhstan : Financial Sector Assessment Program Update—Technical Note—Bank Profitability and Competition
International Monetary Fund - 2004
competition in the banking sector. In spite of significant gains in efficiency made in recent years, operational costs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407263
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Assessing Competitiveness Using Industry Unit Labor Costs : An Application to Slovakia
International Monetary Fund - 2012
Conceptual ambiguities and statistical weaknesses hamper the assessment of external competitiveness. The term competitiveness, while applied extensively, is often imprecisely defined, which can result in analytical errors and mistaken policy advice. Furthermore, aggregate statistical measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396613