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Has the fall in oil prices shifted the healthcare spending burden from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries' governments onto private spending?
Al Mustanyir, Salem - In: Cogent business & management 9 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15
The OPEC countries rely on oil to fund their budgets, similar to many countries worldwide. However, the fall in oil prices in 2008 and 2014 put significant strain on their public finances, including healthcare finances. This study examines the effect of the fall in oil prices on OPEC countries'...
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From oil reliance to financial resilience : have economic sanctions made OPEC countries’ healthcare financing independent from oil?
Al Mustanyir, Salem - In: Cogent business & management 11 (2024) 1, pp. 1-12
The OPEC governments mainly financed their budgets by relying on oil production, similar to many other governments globally. However, the world’s ongoing economic development, changes in countries’ political relationships, and exchange of sanctions could have adverse consequences for...
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The Coronavirus and Lessons for Preparedness
Hendrickson, Joshua R. - 2020
In the midst of a pandemic, the most pressing issues are those of containment and mitigation—both in terms of the virus itself and the economic costs. However, it is also in the midst of a pandemic that one can learn important lessons about preparedness for possible future pandemics.The...
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Running ahead of Pandemics : Achieving In-Advance Antiviral Drugs
Pannu, Jassi - 2020
Three months into the COVID-19 outbreak caused by a novel strain of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the world is still in search of an effective therapeutic drug. Experimental drugs developed for other infections, such as Gilead's remdesivir, have been repurposed with unclear success. A recent small...
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The Way Forward in the Post-COVID World
Rothschild, Daniel M. - 2020
, regulatory policy, health policy, and monetary policy. This policy brief addresses all four of these areas. For each, it …
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
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The international provision of pharmaceuticals: a comparison of two alternative theoretical strategies for global ethics
Pies, Ingo; Hielscher, Stefan - 2007
Millions of people in the developing world lack access to curative drugs. Thomas Pogge identifies the cause for this problem in a lack of redistribution across borders. By contrast, this article shows that institutional shortcomings within developing countries are the main issue. The different...
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The economic case for devoting public resources to health
Bloom, David E.; Fink, Guenther - 2013
The world has enjoyed huge improvements in population health during the last half century. But major health problems … deal with noncommunicable diseases. Several classic arguments for public spending on health have buttressed governments …’ efforts to improve health. These efforts have now been further spurred by new economic arguments that better population health …
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You Had One Job : The Shortcomings of Public Health England and the World Health Organization During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Snowdon, Christopher - 2021
The World Health Organization and Public Health England have been widely criticised for their response to the Covid-19 … pandemic. This paper looks at what went wrong. The WHO has been accused of being credulous in its dealings with China and … giving the world a false sense of security about the virus in the early stages of the outbreak. Public Health England was …
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Performances in COVID-19 Management across Countries : Do Subnational Finances Matter?
Bandyopadhyay, Simanti; Kabiraj, Sujana; Majumder, Subrata - 2021
The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the role of governments in a public health emergency not only in … respect to different fiscal indicators, and percentage of health expenditure over total expenditures and GSDP. These patterns …
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