Search Results - subject:"Informal payments"

Explaining informal payments in the Romanian public health care system

Drugă, Răzvan-Ionuț - In: CES Working Papers 14 (2022) 3, pp. 223-235

Informal payments in the public health care system represent one of the most sensitive topics in the medical world. It …

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Explaining informal payments in the Romanian public health care system

Drugă, Răzvan-Ionuț - In: CES working papers 14 (2022) 3, pp. 223-235

Informal payments in the public health care system represent one of the most sensitive topics in the medical world. It …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013494218

Corruption and SME financing structure : the case of Vietnamese manufacturing

Mai Hong Phan; Archer, Lan - In: Journal of economics & development : JED 22 (2020) 2, pp. 265-279

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Cash on trial

Beer, Christian; Gnan, Ernest; Birchler, Urs W.; … - Conference "Cash on Trial" <2015, Zürich>; SUERF - The …; … - 2016

Over millennia, mankind has used hard cash in various forms ranging from shells to gold coins and paper. More recently, cash has become unpopular in political circles, as it effectively restricts states’ power to tax (explicitly or via negative interest rates) or to survey and potentially...

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Foreign ownership of firms and corruption in Africa

Abotsi, Anselm Komla - In: International journal of economics and financial issues … 5 (2015) 3, pp. 647-655

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How do supply-side factors influence informal payments for healthcare? The case of HIV patients in Cameroon

Kankeu Tchewonpi, Hyacinthe; Boyer, Sylvie; Fodjo … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

occurrence of informal payments while accounting for the demand-side factors. The study relies on data taken from a nationally … to identify the factors associated with the incidence of informal payments. Results reveal that circa 3.05% of the … surveyed patients incurred informal payments for the consultations made on the day of the survey. The amount paid informally …

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Vietnam: Learning from Smart Reforms on the Road to Universal Health Coverage

Barroy, Helene; Jarawan, Eva; Bales, Sarah - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Universal Health Coverage is a powerful framework for a nation aiming to protect their population against health risks. However, countries face multiple challenges in implementing, achieving and sustaining UHC strategies. Sharing and learning from diverse country experiences may enable to foster...

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Impact of Private Incidence of Corruption and Firm Ownership on Performance of Firms in Central and Eastern Europe

Blagojevic, Sandra; Damijan, Jože P. - 2012

The paper investigates how efficiency of business environment and corruption (infirmal payments and state capture) affect the microeconomic perfirmance of firms. The novelty of the paper is to look at these effects in the interaction with the firm ownership. We use firm-level micro data...

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Impact of Private Incidence of Corruption and Firm Ownership on Performance of Firms in Central and Eastern Europe

Blagojevic, Sandra; Damijan, Jože P. - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2012

The paper investigates how efficiency of business environment and corruption (informal payments and state capture … foreign owned) are more involved both into informal payments as well as state capture activities. Our results also reveal that … foreign owned firms that are involved in informal payments are likely to benefit from these corruption practices. On the other …

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Are health care payments in Albania catastrophic? Evidence form ALSMS 2002, 2005 and 2008

Tomini, Sonila; Packard, Truman G. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

by analysing the dynamics of such payments over different years and the weight that informal payments have in the total … indicators by expenditure quintiles to understand better their effects. We find that out-of-pocket and informal payments have … should seek to address the widespread informal payments in the country. …

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