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The impact of community based health insurance schemes on out-of-pocket healthcare spending : evidence from Rwanda
Woldemichael, Andinet; Gurara, Daniel Zerfu; Shimeles, Abebe - 2019
Achieving universal health coverage, including financial risk protection and access to quality essential health-care services, is one of the main Sustainable Development Goals. In low-income countries, innovative and affordable health financing systems are key to realize these goals. This paper...
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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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Health Care Cost Containment
Nedde, Ellen Marie - 1995
The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
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Demographic changes in Latin America : the good, the bad and …
Acosta-Ormaechea, Santiago; Espinosa-Vega, Marco A.; … - 2017
The paper develops a simple, integrated methodology to project public pension cash flows and healthcare spending over the long term. We illustrate its features by applying it to the LAC5 (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico), where public spending pressures are expected to increase...
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Does Higher Government Spending Buy Better Results in Education and Health Care?
Verhoeven, Marijn - 1999
There is little empirical evidence to support the claim that public spending improves education and health indicators. This paper uses cross-sectional data for 50 developing and transition countries to show that expenditure allocations within the two social sectors improve both access to and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401210
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Expenditure Issues and Governance in Central America
Corbacho, Ana - 2002
This paper analyzes Central America''s track record on inequality, poverty, and quality of fiscal adjustment in relation to economic growth; health and education outcomes; adequacy of social safety nets; and governance. It then assesses the degree to which the track record can be traced to...
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The Impact of Ethnic Heterogeneityon the Quantity and Quality of Public Spending
Kuijs, Louis - 2000
The paper investigates empirically the impact of ethnic heterogeneity on the amount of public spending on health and education and the quality, or “technical efficiency” of spending. While it finds partial evidence for the claim that more heterogeneous societies spend less on public goods,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399879
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Budgetary Subsidies in Centrally Planned Economies in Transition
Holzmann, Robert - 1991
This paper analyzes budgetary subsidy policy issues that arise when centrally planned economies move toward a market … economy. The analysis suggests that subsidy reduction, to be successful, has to be embedded into an overall economic reform … program and that during the program’s execution, former implicit subsidies are likely to become budgetized. Furthermore …
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Electric vehicles, tax incentives and emissions : evidence from Norway
Camara, Youssouf; Holtsmark, Bjart; Misch, Florian - 2021
This paper empirically estimates the effects of electric vehicles (EVs) on passenger car emissions to inform the design of policies that encourage EV purchases in Norway. We use exceptionally rich data on the universe of cars and households from Norway, which has a very high share of EVs, thanks...
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Modeling the U.S. climate agenda : macro-climate trade-offs and considerations
Barrett, Philip; Bergant, Katharina; Chateau, Jean; … - 2021
endogenous fuel-specific technological change shows that subsidies cannot substitute for explicit carbon pricing and that even a …
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