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Healthcare reform in Greece : progress and reform priorities

Kalavrezou, Niki; Jin, Hui - 2021

We review Greek public sector healthcare policies and health-related outcomes since 2010.We find that excess spending was successfully curtailed, elements of the institutional framework were modernized, and health outcomes have been relatively favorable. However, especially prior to Covid-19,...

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Patterns and drivers of health spending efficiency

Garcia-Escribano, Mercedes; Juarros, Pedro; Tewodaj Mogues - 2022

Demands for ramping up health expenditures are at an all-time high. Countries' needs for additional health resources include responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, closing gaps in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal in health in most emerging and developing countries, and serving an ageing...

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U.S. Health Care Reform

Nedde, Ellen Marie - 1993

High and rapidly rising health care costs in the United States and growing ranks of uninsured persons have brought health care reform to the top of the U.S. Administration’s policy agenda. This paper describes the health care financing system in the United States, highlights what are viewed as...

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Unintended effects from the expansion of the non-contributory health system in Peru

Nauerz, Jonas; Torres, Jose - 2021

Over the last two decades, the Peruvian government has made great efforts to improve access to health care by significantly augmenting the coverage of the non-contributory public health care system Seguro Integral de Salud (SIS). This expansion has a positive impact on welfare and public health...

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Mask mandates save lives

Hansen, Niels-Jakob Harbo; Mano, Rui - 2021

We quantify the effect of mask mandates in the United States. Our regression discontinuity design exploits county-level variation in COVID-19 cases, hospital admissions, and deaths across the border between states with and without mandates. We find a significant and substantial effect-mask...

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Public Spendingon Health Care and Poor

Verhoeven, Marijn - 2001

This paper estimates the impact of public spending on the poor''s health status in over 70 countries. It provides evidence that the poor have significantly worse health status than the rich and that they are more favorably affected by public spending on health care. An important new result is...

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Financial Market Constraints and Private Investment in a Developing Country

Johnson, Omotunde E. G. - 1990

Firms in developing countries that seek outside financing for investment must often choose their debt-equity combinations in the face of financial market constraints on debt service, on outside equity financing, and on internal finance (endowments). Inefficiencies in the allocation of available...

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The Impact of External Indebtednesson Poverty in Low-Income Countries

Kalonji, Kadima D. - 2003

This paper explores the relationship between external debt and poverty. A number of observers have argued that high external indebtedness is a major cause of poverty. Using the first-differenced general method of moments (GMM) estimator, the paper models the impact of external debt on poverty,...

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Energy subsidies and public social spending : theory and evidence

Ebeke, Christian; Ngouana, Constant Lonkeng - 2015

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The Unequal Benefits of Fuel Subsidies Revisited : Evidence for Developing Countries

Coady, David P. - 2015

designing, and gaining public support for, subsidy reform. This paper updates evidence for developing countries on the magnitude … of the welfare impact of subsidy reform and its distribution across income groups, incorporating more recent studies and … subsidy reform for countries where the data necessary for such an analysis is not available …

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