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The GDP Impact of Reform : A Simple Simulation Framework
Barnes, Sebastian; Bouis, Romain; Briard, Philippe; … - 2011
This paper presents a framework to assess the impact of a wide range of structural policy reforms on GDP per capita at various horizons by linking together previous empirical studies mostly carried out by the OECD. The simple accounting framework consists of reduced-form equations and offers a...
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Japan's Challenging Debt Dynamics
Guillemette, Yvan; Strasky, Jan - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
This working paper presents the background and the details of the simulations behind Box 1.4 of the May 2013 OECD Economic Outlook. A small simulation model is used to evaluate the contribution that the three pillars of the government’s strategy – fiscal consolidation, growth-boosting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276798
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Moving Towards more Sustainable Healthcare Financing in Germany
Brandt, Nicola - 2008
The aim of the recent healthcare reform was to increase the sustainability of healthcare finances, by reducing its … decouple healthcare finances from labour income a bit, if and once they materialise. An improved risk adjustment between …. However, the segmentation of the healthcare system in a private and a social insurance market will continue to pose equity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443910
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The Changing Health System in France
Imai, Yutaka - 2000
increasing further in the future in the absence of adequate measures. Past reform efforts, which have shifted the cost to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443912
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Improving China's Health Care System
Herd, Richard - 2010
prevention, a new essential drugs system and far-reaching reorganisation, including hospital reform. It will be important to make …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444453
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In Search of Efficiency : Improving Health Care in Hungary
Goglio, Alessandro - 2005
One area where spending discipline will become increasingly important in Hungary is health care. This paper describes the structure of the health care system, highlights outstanding weaknesses and considers ways to make financing more stable and sustainable. The slow progress in modernising the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444458
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Health Care Systems : Efficiency and Institutions
Joumard, Isabelle - 2010
This paper presents a set of indicators to assess health care system performance. It also presents new comparative data on health care policies and institutions for OECD countries. This set of indicators allows the empirical characterisation of health care systems and the identification of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444843
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Getting Better Value for Money from Sweden's Healthcare System
Rae, David - 2005
This paper reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the Swedish healthcare system and the challenges that it will face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444997
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Improving Cost-Effectiveness in the Health Care Sector in Iceland
Suppanz, Hannes - 2008
-related health inequality appears to be smaller than in most other countries. However, the health-care system is costly and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445064
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Improving the Efficiency of Health Care Spending : Selected Evidence on Hospital Performance
Erlandsen, Espen - 2007
There are no ready-made data on hospital outputs and inputs which would allow comprehensive international comparisons of hospital efficiency to be carried out. This paper, therefore, relies on selected evidence to compare hospital efficiency in a subset of OECD countries, based on three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446148