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Belgium has a good record in delivering accessible care, but adaptation to population ageing will be complicated by the fragmentation of responsibilities in the healthcare system and a strong reliance on government regulations. The organisation of the system could be rationalised by giving...
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health would come from population-wide preventive measures. Access to public health care services varies substantially … public health services, more health professionals and public health care spending will be needed to ensure broad and adequate … health-care coverage. Priority should be given to high impact primary health care services. For more resources to translate …
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Health services are largely tax-financed in the United Kingdom and account for 14 per cent of general government … spending. This paper analyses how the National Health Service (NHS) has been dealing with the associated expenditure pressures …
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The main features of China’s current sub-national finance arrangements date back to the 1994 tax reform. China has a … government has raised the scale of transfers. Over the past decade, China’s transfer policy has addressed the horizontal … strong budgets. This Working Paper relates to the 2013 OECD Economic Survey of China (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/china …
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The design of intergovernmental fiscal relations can help to ensure that tax and spending powers are assigned in a way to promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth. Decentralisation can enable sub-central governments to provide better public services for households and firms, while it...
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Using data on U.S. state and federal taxes and transfers over a quarter century, we estimate a regression model that yields the marginal effect of any shift of market income share from one quintile to another on the entire post tax, post-transfer income distribution. We identify exogenous income...
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sports in general and in any of the publicly funded sports facilities in particular. Moreover, improved well-being and health …
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sports in general and in any of the publicly funded sports facilities in particular. Moreover, improved well-being and health …
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Revised April 13, 2010The Governors of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and several other states have recently proposed employer tax credits as measures to fight high unemployment in their states. Such policies are also being considered at the federal level. In the Working Paper, Jeff...
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