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The study examines the effect of health care reform in Bulgaria in 1999 on the equity of health care financing. It … explores the distribution of different types of health care financing by income. Furthermore, it separates the financial and … distinguishing between financially based and "exclusion based" reasons for having progressive/regressive health care financing …
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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,...
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health sector policy, particularly when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity … state and market in health care financing and provision. It also suggests situations in which macroeconomists should engage … health sector specialists in policy formulation exercises. Finally, it reviews the different health policy issues that …
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address issues concerning health sector policy and when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also … roles for the state and market in health care financing and provision. It also suggests the situations in which … macroeconomists should engage health sector specialists in policy formulation exercises. Finally, it illustrates the different health …
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Despite the increasing interest in universal health care, little is known about the optimal way to finance, design, and … health care, certain preconditions are needed, including sound public administration, a small informal economy, and a … transparent health financing system that builds social consensus. …
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Economic Transition and Health Care Reform: The Experience of Europe and Central Asia …
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Public health spending is low in emerging and developing economies relative to advanced economies and health outputs … and outcomes need to be substantially improved. Simply increasing public expenditure in the health sector, however, may … not significantly affect health outcomes if the efficiency of this spending is low. This paper quantifies the inefficiency …
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Enhancing the efficiency of education and health spending is a key policy challenge in G7 countries. The paper assesses … and doctors' consultations coincide with higher efficiency in the health sector. Greater autonomy for schools seems to …
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This paper attempts to ascertain what light the empirical literature sheds on the efficacy of performance budgeting. Performance budgeting refers to procedures or mechanisms intended to strengthen links between the funds provided to public sector entities and their outcomes and/or outputs...
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Government intervention to correct market failures is often accompanied by government failures and corruption. This is no more evident than in social sectors that are characterized by significant market failures and government intervention. However, the impact of corruption on the public...
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