We use incidence analysis to examine the financial costs and benefits from the Philippine's National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) through the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) that accrue to different age groups and socio-economic classes. We find that premium contributions...

We use incidence analysis to examine the financial costs and benefits from the Philippine’s National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) through the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) that accrue to different age groups and socio-economic classes. We find that premium...

The dispute over the manner of computing fiscal imbalances is not a technical one. Different methods serve different purposes and these purposes are political rather than simply economic. They differ basically in the consideration that territorial jurisdictions may merit. This is whether they...