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This paper provides an analysis of the developments in public health spending over the past 40 years, as well as projections of public health spending for 50 advanced and emerging countries over 2011-50. The paper also quantifies the effects of specific health reforms on the growth of public...
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This supplement provides country case studies on public health care expenditures and reform experiences in eight advanced and six emerging market economies. The case studies for the advanced economies seek to highlight specific episodes of success in containing public health spending during the...
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While federal credit programs are varied in form, their fiscal and economic effects arise primarily from the same source—each program’s subsidy component. Recent credit reform proposals would make control of credit subsidies the primary focus of budgetary efforts. By subjecting these...
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With much healthcare publicly funded, Hong Kong''s rapidly aging population will significant raise fiscal pressure over coming decades. We ask what the implications are of meeting these costs by public funding, or private funding voluntarily or through mandates. Our simulations suggest that...
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Presented to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in September 2015, this report seeks to identify key capital markets instruments that can help mobilize institutional investors to infrastructure and small and medium-sized enterprise financing in emerging market economies.
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Am 3. Januar 1992 stellte der Präsident der russischen Föderation den offiziellen Antrag auf Aufnahme in den IMF und die Weltbankgruppe. Bereits seit November 1991 besuchten IMF-Experten Moskau, um mit den russischen Behörden die Wirtschaftspolitik zu besprechen, eine fundierte...
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structural shocks. Inflation in Russia has been characterized by a considerable degree of persistence. An explicit inflation …-looking, thereby reducing persistence. The exchange rate is the Central Bank of Russia’s (CBR) main policy instrument for controlling …
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, economic developments, and macroeconomic policies. Russia’s economic growth remains robust. High oil prices and sound fiscal … policy underlie Russia’s long spell of robust growth. Executive Directors noted that Russia continues to face tensions in the …
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. Russia’s statistical system has made good progress in adopting international statistical methodologies in response to the …
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This Selected Issues paper analyzes the entrenched inflation in Russia. It presents a possible explanation for the …. The paper focuses on measuring the performance of fiscal policy in Russia. It examines capital structures and … vulnerabilities for the corporate sector in Russia. Recent developments and remaining challenges for the Russian banking sector are …
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