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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy: A Primer

Hsiao, William C. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need in situations where they must address issues concerning health sector policy and when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825737

What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy?

Heller, Peter S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need to address issues concerning health sector policy, particularly when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to any strategy of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599256

Education and Health in G7 Countries; Achieving Better Outcomes with Less Spending

Gunnarsson, Victoria; Carcillo, Stéphane; Verhoeven, Marijn - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

and doctors' consultations coincide with higher efficiency in the health sector. Greater autonomy for schools seems to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768819

Economic Transition and Health Care Reform; The Experience of Europe and Central Asia

Leive, Adam - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

Economic Transition and Health Care Reform: The Experience of Europe and Central Asia

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470394

The Health Sector in the Slovak Republic; Efficiency and Reform

Gunnarsson, Victoria; Lugaresi, Sergio; Verhoeven, Marijn - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

efficiency of health expenditures and service delivery in comparison to the OECD and other new EU member states and suggests … inputs into health outcomes. Efficiency may be enhanced by containing the cost of drugs and reducing reliance on hospital …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605016

Universal Health Care 101; Lessons for the Eastern Caribbean and Beyond

Tsounta, Evridiki - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

Despite the increasing interest in universal health care, little is known about the optimal way to finance, design, and implement it. This paper attempts to fill this gap by providing some general policy recommendations on this important issue. While most of the paper addresses the Eastern...

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Is Asia Prepared for An Aging Population?

Heller, Peter S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

Many Asian countries (such as China, Singapore, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines) will experience a significant aging of their populations during the next several decades. This paper explores how these aging Asian countries are addressing and anticipating the...

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Mexico; Experiences with Pro-Poor Expenditure Policies

Corbacho, Ana; Schwartz, Gerd - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

Against the background of Mexico's persistently high degree of inequality, this paper analyzes the country's experience with pro-poor policies over the last decade. A number of important government initiatives, implemented since the mid-1990s, have aimed at improving distributional equity...

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Health Aid and Infant Mortality

Newhouse, David Locke; Mishra, Prachi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

This paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from 118 countries between … 1973 and 2004. Health aid has a statistically significant effect on infant mortality: doubling per capita health aid is … associated with a 2 percent reduction in the infant mortality rate. For the average country, this implies that increasing per …

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Does Performance Budgeting Work? An Analytical Review of the Empirical Literature

Robinson, Marc; Brumby, Jim - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

the literature on one specific sectoral system-output-based hospital funding systems. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769044

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