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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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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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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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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...
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 advanced and six emerging market economies. The case studies for the advanced economies seek to highlight specific episodes of success in containing public health spending during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410083
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Selected Euro-Area Countries : Rules-Based Fiscal Policy and Job-Rich Growth in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain-Report with Supplementary Information
International Monetary Fund - 2001
Fiscal deficits and the public debt has grown throughout much of the postwar period in most industrialized countries under the pressure of rising public expenditure, a trend that has begun to reverse after 1992. A number of studies argue that fiscal consolidation in association with expenditure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407227
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Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) : Labor Market Reforms to Boost Employment and Productivity in the GCC
International Monetary Fund - 2013
-sector employment and have helped raise standards of living. However, the growth model has involved costs: the public-sector wage bill … is relatively high, there is limited employment of nationals in the private sector, labor productivity has declined or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410425
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Fiscal Policy and Employment in Advanced and Emerging Economies
International Monetary Fund - 2012
This paper discusses tax and expenditure policy reforms to raise employment. Using data for 58 advanced and emerging …. The focus is on incentives to increase labor demand and supply rather than on the impact of fiscal policy on employment … principles which should guide the design of country-specific fiscal reforms to boost employment. A comprehensive set of tables on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410536
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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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Belgium; Detailed Assessment of Observance of Insurance Core Principles
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
The Belgian insurance industry was adversely affected by the global financial crisis and continued to confront challenges related to legacy assets and economic uncertainties in Europe. The Belgian authorities have made significant progress in updating the insurance regulatory regime and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244392