and middle-income countries-India, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Paraguay. The authors describe two methods-testing doctors and …

little hard empirical evidence. The author builds on recent empirical work to explore in the context of postreform Vietnam … the medical care costs associated with health shocks, and is consistent with the very generous coverage of Vietnam …

This paper explores the major challenges to the sustainability of health sector financing in the countries of the … countries in the sub-region could consider in order to enhance the efficiency and sustainability of their health systems. Data …

economies in the water industry in four countries (Brazil, Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam) that differ substantially in economic … find evidence of economies of scale in Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam, implying the existence of a natural monopoly. In … customer density in Moldova and Vietnam. The results of this study show that the cost structure of the water and wastewater …

The authors examine the effects of the introduction of Vietnam's health insurance (VHI) program on health outcomes … biases due to inappropriate specification of the outcome regression model. The authors' results suggest that Vietnam's health …

paper exploits this feature of the data for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The analysis yields two …