expand health coverage are characterized by a common enrollment and financing pattern, starting with formal-sector workers …The aim of the report is to review existing approaches and available policy options to improve access to health care … services and financial protection against health shocks for informal-sector workers (ISWs). Along with their families, ISWs …

on the cyclical patterns of government health spending. This descriptive analysis, which covers 183 countries between … 1995 and 2010, provides empirical evidence on the cyclicality of government health expenditures, using panel data from a … global macro database, the fiscal health database. The objective is to propose user-friendly diagnostic approaches in this …